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I have no idea what I am doing...BUT: there is a lengthy article re Castle Hill in Virginia, but the link shown above does not take one to the link--I got to the article from another site--but too complicated to remember how I managed to do that. see portion of the actual Wiki article below.... ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Castle Hill (U.S. National Historic Landmark) Castle Hill, Virginia (1764) Nearest city: Charlottesville, VA Built/Founded: 1764 / 1824 Architect: Thomas Walker & Captain John Perry Architectural style(s): Colonial and Neoclassical Added to NRHP: February 23, 1972 Governing body: Private Castle Hill (Virginia), is an historic, 600-acre (2.4 km2) plantation located at the foot of the Southwest Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Monticello and the city of Charlottesville , recognized by the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Castle Hill was the beloved home of Dr. Thomas Walker (1715-1794) (explorer, the physician of Peter Jefferson, and later guardian and close friend of Thomas Jefferson), and his wife, Mildred Thornton Meriwether (widow of Nicholas Meriwether III). Through his marriage to Mildred in 1741, Walker acquired the land comprising approximately 15,000 acres (61 km2) which would become the site for Castle Hill. The original clapboard, colonial residence was built by Walker in 1764. In its great square hall, the youthful, music-loving Jefferson once played the violin, while the still younger Madison danced. Here in 1781, Walker's wife delayed the British Colonel Banastre Tarleton to give the patriot Jack Jouett time to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislators of Tarleton's plan to capture them. snip
Of course that link isn't going anywhere: there's a double http:// in it and the ) after Virginia is missing. The link you're looking for is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill_(Virginia)
