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Warrenton was attorney in the transaction for the Halls.
The original Rose Hill residence was a large frame house with pillars, built long before the Civil War by William Armistead Lane and his wife, Elizabeth Green Lane, on land owned by her father and given to them as bride and groom.
Mrs. Lane was said to have put five dollars aside each year for the purchase of bulbs, shrubs, and the magnificent English boxwood that still grace the beautifully-landscaped grounds. Their grandchild, Helen Lane, was widely known as the “belle and beauty” of Rose Hill who strolled through its gardens over “white gravel walks”, as described in one of the Garden Tour passages.
Before the Civil War, John Thomas Fletcher bought the property and lived there, but during the war the house caught fire from a defective flue and burned. When the war was over, the Flptrhprc hnilt t hp nmcont
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