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The Prestons:
‘We love our
old place dearly’
By Helkm WILLIAMS
Special to th» Rappahannock ?fewi»
Since the early 19th century Bowling Green on Resettlement Road has looked down its driveway to the road in an austere and stately fashion. But its- history is nrorft older than that.
Like most homes in the Flint Hill area* Bowlin# Green was originally part of the vast land holdingsof the Thornton family. Sometime in the late 1700s a modest log building appeared, and by ISOS a stone addition sheltered the household of Moses and Betsy Gibson and them growing family
The name “Bowling Green” dates from these early days, and its meaning is not clean although the green lawns that now stretch on all four sides of the house certainly might have brought to mind England’s cricket fields* peopled with, bowlers and. batsmen.
In 1839^ the farm saw great change when a young Eastham Jordan purchased the property and proceeded to enlarge the house for Louisa* his bride to be. The 1840 “addition” would dwarf the earlier structures: it was constructed of brick tired on the property; and was done in the period’s fashionable Greek Revival style-its trontfacadi constructed in three bays, with deceptively Large {8T it S’) windows. A low hipped roof with large cornices crowned the new “three over three” structure.
Today the house is much as Jordan built it* although the log section disappeared during a brief peri
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