. Historic Virginia homes and churches . ke County,stands a short distance hack from the valley pike, uponthe brow of a hill commanding a view of extensive, butrustic grounds, and the Blue Ridge beyond. The planta-tion, like many others in the neighborhood, is enclosedfrom the road by the grey, rugged stone fences, which theVirginia creeper and trumpet flower love, and which, be-wreathed with these and other gray-hued climbers, add acharming feature to the already pictin-esque landscape. Alittle way down the hill from one side of the mansion, agroup of fine old weeping-willows hang their long
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . ke County,stands a short distance hack from the valley pike, uponthe brow of a hill commanding a view of extensive, butrustic grounds, and the Blue Ridge beyond. The planta-tion, like many others in the neighborhood, is enclosedfrom the road by the grey, rugged stone fences, which theVirginia creeper and trumpet flower love, and which, be-wreathed with these and other gray-hued climbers, add acharming feature to the already pictin-esque landscape. Alittle way down the hill from one side of the mansion, agroup of fine old weeping-willows hang their long fringesover the spring-house, with its suggestions of cool butter-milk and other palatable things. The overflow from thespring makes a little brook which runs on down the hill andinto the glen bejond it, which with its great shade trees and BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS 461 its mossy ,i>ray Ijoulders niakcs a iiatui-al park. Tlie houseis simple, but substantial and commodious. It was builtsoon after tlie Revolution by John Page, son of Robert. PAGEBROOK, CLARKE COUNTY Page, of Broadneck, Hanover County— that holy man,John Page, a writer of the time calls him. He marriedMaria, daughter of Colonel William Byrd III, of West-over, and died in 1838. He was succeeded at Pagebrook byhis son. Judge John Evelyn Page, of the Virginia CircuitCourt, who occupied it until his own death, in 1881. JudgePage married Aliss Emily ]McGuire, of Loudoim County,and had many children, but upon his death, in 1881, Page-brook passed, by jjurchase, to his nephew, Mr. Herbert , of Edenton, N. C, who used it as a summer the death of JNIr. Herbert Page the estate passedfrom the family that had always owned it and has sincechanged hands several times. It is now the property ofMr. Mulliken. NATURAL BRIDGE So interesting an object could not escape the curiosityand observation of JNIr. JeiFerson. His account of it is asfollows: 462 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES The Natural Bridge, the most siibhme o
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