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Red Hill, Kitchen, State Route 619, Brookneal, Charlotte County, VA
LocationState Route 619,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS VA-1034-C
Building/structure dates:
1950
Significance: Red Hill was the final home and burial site of Patrick Henry (1736-99), prominent Revolutionary War and early national patriot, politician, orator, and lawyer. Henry was a leader in provoking and organizing resistance to British government of the colonies. He served as governor of Virginia five times in the 1770-80s, during the American Revolution and its aftermath, and led the opposition to ratifying the U.S. Constitution in Virginia in 1788. He thereafter withdrew from state politics and resumed a successful law practice. Henry occupied Red Hill from 1794 until 1799, the year of his death. Red Hill is a 1950s interpretation of a typical well-to-do eighteenth-century planter's home in Southside Virginia. While this building is alleged to represent the original Henry kitchen, there is no evidence of how this dependency appeared. The present kitchen resembles -- in basic form, scale and materials -- a typical detached eighteenth-century kitchen. In 1978 the U.S. Department of the Interior recognized Red Hill as a national landmark and entered the property in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1986 the property was designated a National Memorial to Patrick Henry by an act of Congress.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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