. Historic Virginia homes and churches . SHKUWOOD. COUNTY SHERWOOD Ample grounds, a fine river view and piazzas of gen-erous proportions make Sherwood, the roof-tree of the 250 ^•IRGIXIA HOMES AND CHURCHES Seldens ^ and Diinniocks, descended from the Lewises ofWarmr Hall, an ideal country home. Anionf? the charmsof the j)laee arc the ten-acre lawn, shaded by elms, maples,niai^iiolias, tulip poplars, pecan and other trees, and theold anlen eijually well furnished with sweet and beautifulflowers and interesting shrubs. It is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Williams. LEVEL GREEN Al
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . SHKUWOOD. COUNTY SHERWOOD Ample grounds, a fine river view and piazzas of gen-erous proportions make Sherwood, the roof-tree of the 250 ^•IRGIXIA HOMES AND CHURCHES Seldens ^ and Diinniocks, descended from the Lewises ofWarmr Hall, an ideal country home. Anionf? the charmsof the j)laee arc the ten-acre lawn, shaded by elms, maples,niai^iiolias, tulip poplars, pecan and other trees, and theold anlen eijually well furnished with sweet and beautifulflowers and interesting shrubs. It is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Williams. LEVEL GREEN Also on the Ware is Level Green, which in the j^ast waslong the home of the Robins family, a plantation notedin the political annals of Gloucester as the place whereIlem-y Clay landed during a famous EAGLE POINT, GLOUCESTER COUNTY EAGLE POIXT John Randolph Bryan, who was a namesake of JohnRandolph of Roanoke and was educated under his care, ** Selden family (Sherwood branch): William and MaryQuarterly, v, 60-62, 264-267. •Robins family: Virginia MagorAne of History and Biog-raphy, ii, 187-189, 316-.}17. THE YORK RIVER COUXTRY 251 married Randolphs greatly beloved niece, ElizabethTucker Coalter. This couple made Ka^Ie Point, on theSevern, one of the most noted homes in Ciloucester from1830 until 1862, when it was broken up by the war, andthe estate passed out of the Rryaii family. It was boughtback by the late Mr. Joseph IJryan, of Laburnum. IlcmicoCounty, and by him the house was greatly enlarged andbeautified and its reputation for genuine old ^irginia hos-pitality re-established. Full of poetic as well as of anti(juarian interest, is thefamily graveyard, unicpiely situated upon a pine-shadedislet in the river, not far from the house. SEVERXBY Upon what was once a part of the E
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