Re: aeneas campbell
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Re: aeneas campbell
CHERYL WATSON 8/24/04
After my last message I looked at one of my old maps and it had a notation of "Raspberry Plain, 1916," so I called the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg and they sent me what they had on the house.If you e-mail me, I will send copies to you.However, you might not want them.This is a little of what the sent:
"Raspberry Plain, an estate in Loudoun County on the Point of Rocks road, near Leesburg, has a history which dates back to the organization of the county in 1757.Here, when the estate was the property of Aeneas Cmpbell, the first sheriff, the county's first prison was built.Here, Armistead Thomson Mason, who was killed in the MasonMcCarty duel at Bladensburg (MD), on February 6, 1819, was born.J.G. Hopkins is the present owner."(This is a newspaper article, undated, with a photograph of the present house.)
There is a pen and ink drawing of the mansion done in 1995; A photograph of the mansion and the local hunt club, undated, but probably in the 90s; and a photograph and article from the 'Newsletter for the Preservation Society of Loudoun County, which states:
"Raspberry Plain situated on the Old Carolina Road (Route 15) was given by the Virginia proprietor in 1731 to Joseph Dixon who probably built the first house.In 1754he sold the property to Aeneas Campbell who reputedly kept a small jail on the premises thre and a half miles outside the town limits that included a ducking stool used to discourage the wagging tongues of County gossips."(Notice there is no mention of Aeneas living on the property.)
"The noteable Mason family owned the property next.Thomson Mason, younger brother of George Mason IV of Gunston Hall bought the estate in 1760 and built a new house in 1771 on the site the present mansion, erected in 1908 by John G. Hopkins."(There is further information on the Mason family.
There are two photographs taken in 1905 which show a rundown brick mansion, which was probably the one built in 1771.There are front and back views and it appears to be vacant.
I am now interested in knowing where Aeneas actually lived in Loudoun Co.He only owned the property for about six years, so it is interesting we associate it with him at all; I guess because of the jail.I also intend too look in our records in our historical society to see where he lived here in Montgomery County.
As I said, I will send these copies if you would like to have them.Glad you found White's Ferry!The one that was used for many years collapsed a few years ago and a new one was built which holds about 27 cars; it is well-used.
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