. Historic Virginia homes and churches . POHICK CHIRCH, FAIKI AX COUNTY William Fairfax, George Mason. Daniel McCarthy andEdward Payne. Pohick Church was hadly damaged hy Federal troopsdin-ing the War between the States, and when it was laterrepaired, through the generosity of a gentleman from XewYork, the interior was unfortunately modernized. INIorerecently, however, its quaint and interesting appearancehas been restored. It is the custom of the regents of the Mt. Vernon Asso-ciation to attend service once a year in old Pohick. 364 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES GUNSTON HALL About one mile dist
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . POHICK CHIRCH, FAIKI AX COUNTY William Fairfax, George Mason. Daniel McCarthy andEdward Payne. Pohick Church was hadly damaged hy Federal troopsdin-ing the War between the States, and when it was laterrepaired, through the generosity of a gentleman from XewYork, the interior was unfortunately modernized. INIorerecently, however, its quaint and interesting appearancehas been restored. It is the custom of the regents of the Mt. Vernon Asso-ciation to attend service once a year in old Pohick. 364 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES GUNSTON HALL About one mile distant from Pohick Church standsGunston Hall, the famous home of George Mason (1725-1792), author of the Bill of Rights and the Constitutionof Virginia. The Gunston estate of 7000 acres was long since dividedinto small farms, most of which are now the property of. GUNSTON HALL. FAIRFAX COUNTY northern settlers, but the mansion is as well preserved asMt. Vernon, and more pretentious. It is eighty feet longby forty feet wide, with thick brick walls, tall chimneysand a long sloping roof. Standing somewhat back fromthe Potomac, upon a bold bluff, it makes a striking picture 1^ Mason family: Rowland, The Life and Letters of GeorgeMason, 1725-1792, vol. i, chap. i. THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 305 and comniaiuls a spleiulid view of the river. It possessesthe spacious rooms and hall ol Colonial mansions of itstype, finished with handsomely carved wainseotint?, muchof which is said to have been hrou^lit from Knf>land. (ieorge Mason (fifth in descent from (ieor^e Masonthe Cavalier, who took refuge in Viroinia in 1().57) l)uilt(runston Hall in and lived in it many years, duringwhich it was a favorite resort of some of the most historiccharacters of those history-making days. Mt. Vernon isonly four miles away, by river, and Washington, who kepta
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