PROSPECT HILL 



HE Tidewater trail, from Fredericksburg to Nor- 

 folk, which passes the now sleepy, but ancient and 

 historic, little village of Port Royal, is a popular 

 and interesting highway, and many of the roads 

 which lead therefrom extend to the tourist a call 

 so inviting that the summons is irresistible. 



About ten miles from Fredericksburg, an attractive roadway 

 leads to the right in a southeasterly direction. Great branches of 

 oak, sycamore, maple, and elm trees, garlanded with honeysuckle, 

 interlock familiarly above, and form a graceful canopy over its 

 hard, smooth, serpentine surface, carpeted here and there with 

 pine-cones and needles. 



This entrance-way to the interior of historic old Caroline 

 County, with its sweeping hills, and restful valleys, is very charming. 



Caroline County! which gave to our nation's history such dis- 

 tinguished men as Edmund Pendleton, William Woodford, Richard 

 Brooke, and John Taylor! It also gave the Battailes, Fitzhughs, 

 and Gordons. The latter of Flintshire, Belvedere, Santee and 

 Prospect Hill. It was the home of the Hays, of Hayfield; the 

 Corbins, of Moss Neck, and others are closely associated with the 

 best in every phase of the social, political, and religious life in 

 Caroline County. 



Many of the homes of these old families, long past the century 

 mark, exhibit a peculiarly picturesque age, with entire freedom from 

 that detracting quality, often the result of years of indifference on 

 the part of unappreciative inmates. 



Santee, familiarly known as the old Gordon place, but which 

 was originally one of the many Fitzhugh country seats, is among 

 the most interesting estates in this section. Its vine-hung house was 

 built by Battaile Fitzhugh in 1807, and here, as in days of yore, 



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