REDLANDS 



EDLANDS, belonging to the Misses Polly Coles 

 and Sally Randolph Carter, is situated in Albe- 

 marle County on a high hill at the southern end 

 of a range of mountains known as Carter's Moun- 

 tains; on the northern end of this little range of 

 hills lies Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. 

 It is rather interesting that there are marked similarities between 

 the interior plans of these two houses, a fact to be accounted for 

 by the intimate friendship which connected the original owners and 

 their families. 



Redlands, on its high hill, overlooks a fair and smiling country 

 which stretches on one side to the ever beautiful and poetic curves of 

 the Blue Ridge, and spreads on the front to the far extended, rolling, 

 wooded plateau, which for thirty miles or more stretches Its length 

 through Albemarle and Fluvanna counties. It overlooks the "Big 

 Woods," home of the partridges and wild turkeys, and, with its 

 far extended sweep and beauty, seems to challenge the imagination 

 of all who see it through the blue, sunlit, misty veil peculiar to 

 these foothills. 



The house was built in 1789 by Robert Carter, son of Edward 

 Carter, of Blenheim, the younger brother of Charles Carter, of 

 Shirley, and grandson of Robert Carter, of Corotoman, who was 

 known as "King Carter." Robert Carter inherited the southern 

 portion of his father's large landed estate In Albemarle County, 

 and on his marriage to Miss Mary Eliza Coles (known to her 

 family and friends as Polly), of Enniscorthy, he began the erection 

 of the dwelling. Together they laid out the lawn and garden 

 and the latter still retains the original plan on which it was designed 

 in 1798. 



Like many Virginia and English gardens, that at Redlands was 

 a combination of vegetable and flower garden; It was and is laid 



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