BREMO 



REMO, on the Upper James River, the beautiful 

 century-old home, built by General John Hartwell 

 Cocke, stands as a rare type of Greek-Colonial 

 architecture, and commands a superb view of the 

 fertile valley of the James and the Buckingham hills 

 beyond. 



This estate with its large stone barns and outbuildings, is one 

 of the most notable places in its section. 



Though he lived nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, General 

 Cocke was as fanatical a prohibitionist as any of this later day. 

 Believing that water — and water only — was the beverage for men 

 to drink, he placed on the bank of the James River and Kanawha 

 Canal, which ran through his property, an enormous iron pitcher 

 or urn. Pipes from a nearby spring supplied the water which ran 

 from the huge pitcher at all times except freezing weather. This 

 curiosity, now known as the "Teapot of Bremo," stands on the lawn 

 at the old place where it is a constant source of interest to visitors. 



On the low-lying slope below the south lawn lies the old garden, 

 famous in ante-bellum days for the beauty of its flowering shrubs, 

 and its wealth of old-time flowers which pour out their fragrance 

 to all who wander there. 



Its broad, winding walks are shaded by semi-tropical trees, and 

 the sunlight flickers through the rosy glow of the feathery mimosa 

 or the dark green of the coffee tree. There one might linger under 

 arbors and gather luscious grapes or stroll along the old serpentine 

 brick wall and feast on figs worthy of the Orient. Or, they may 

 emerge from the shaded walks to view the panorama of brilliant 

 beds of roses encircled by the dark, rich green of the box-hedge 

 which forms a gigantic star in the midst of the garden. Farther on, 

 myriads of flowering bulbs once rejoiced on the sloping borders of a 



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