The old-time gate keeper at Sabine Hall 
The approach to the estate is over a surpassingly lovely 
wooded roadway over a mile in length, canopied with white 
petalled dogwood and rosy laurel in the months of spring 
time, and a mass of brilliant color when the first frost comes 
to silhouette the red berried hollies against a background of 
winter snow. On reaching the brick lodge, with its great 
white gate, the stranger guest is treated to a picture of olden 
days in the keeper, an old negress with red bandana and 
courtesying manner, who lifts the latch to let one through. 
From the lodge to the manor house stretches a thickly 
turfed park of twenty-five acres where oaks and sycamores, 
hickories and elms afford dense shade, and are lined with 
precision into a stately avenue showing nature at her most 
lavish and best. ‘The landscape architecture of this wind- 
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The beautiful mahogany stairway 
ing driveway gives exquisite glimpses of the river flowing 
beyond, and just before reaching the lawn proper, branches 
to both right and left, joining again in front of the mansion, 
giving thus a dignified and easy entrance or exit around the 
well-mown circle. 
The grounds, with their incomparable greensward, are 
adorned here with blue blossomed catalpa trees, or there with 
a group of maples, while dotted about in careless fashion are 
ashes and lindens, walnuts and oaks, venerable monarchs of 
an early forest. A giant sycamore lends its ample shade on 
one side of the house, rivaled only by magnificent ailanthus 
trees, the pride of the estate. On the land side these beau- 
tiful grounds slope gently to the wooded vales below, grad- 
ually losing themselves in the forest of many miles in extent. 
Built on early Georgian lines, the brick originally laid in Flemish bond are now covered with a wash of gray cement 
