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The easement includes provisions that obligate any owner of the property from taking actions incompatible with the preservation of the landmark, including development or subdivision of the property which would adversely impact the historic characteristics of the property.
In addition to the historic easement protecting the house, Caledonia Farm is already protected by a scenic easement granted to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation in 1974.
“Caledonia Farm is an important landmark for Virginia,” said Hugh C. Miller, director of the Department of Historic Resources, “and the assurance that this house and land will be preserved for future generations is particularly important in a county well known for its rural and scenic beauty.”
The John W. Miller House was built in 1842-43, about 10 years after Caledonia Farm. It is a basic “I” form farmhouse that was adorned in the 1880s with Italianate features, including an eleborately embellished two-story front porch, on the southwest elevation.
The house, according to the Interior Department documentation of the house, “rises above interpretation solely as a Rappahannock farm dwelling because of the sophistication of its Italianate ornamentation.
“The combination of buildings and the associated cemetery, when considered in conjunction with the extensive archival records that are available for the property, provide a
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