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The 29th Annual Rappahannock House Tour and Dried Flower Sale will be held on Oct. 19 and 20. Houses will be open from 11 a. m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday.
One of the houses to be shown is “Greenwood Farm” located in Gid Brown Hollow, 1.5 miles north of Rediviva on Route 211. Greenwood originated prior to 1749 when it was part of the original Fairfax Grant.
The present house was built by Gideon (Gid) Brown in the 1840s, replacing the original that burned. The construction is of pine brought from North Carolina to the Kimbal/Elgin railroad station in the Shenandoah Valley near Luray, and from there across the mountain by ox cart. The existing floors, woodwork and beams are all original.
After completion of the house, Gid Brown brought his young neice, Elizabeth Williams, here from Missouri where her parents had died. He raised her as his own daughter. Elizabeth married Dr. Brook Miller and the property remained in the Brown/Miller family until it was bought by Col. and Mrs. Evan McNear in 1960. By that time, the woods had encroached on the house and Col. McNear cleared them to the stone fences seen to the south and west.
The house is a fine example of Greek revival architecture and, with the exception of the indoor kitchen added during World War I and the two baths added by the McNears, is as originally built. It boasts seven operating fire places, each with its distinctive facade, and nine outside doors. The number of doors is common for the period to provide rapid egress in the event of fire.
On the south porch remains one of the orginal gas lamps that were fed from a gas well on the property. Off the southwest corner is the old kitchen house, now an apartment, with walls of 18” pine. A few hundred yards east of the house, on a small rise, is the family burial plot enclosed in field stone walls, were Elizabeth Miller is buried.
Greenwood is a working cattle farm managed by Richard McNear and specializing in “cow-calf’ operations crossbreeding Angus, Charolais and Chianina stock.
The house contains many fine antiques, contemporary furnishings and memorabilia from Europe and r
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