NE of Cismont near jct. of VA 231 and 640, Cismont, Virginia. County/parish: Albemarle.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 23, 1972. NRIS 72001379.
11 contributing buildings.
Castle Hill (Virginia) is an historic, privately owned, 600-acre (243 ha) plantation located at the foot of the Southwest Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Monticello and the city of Charlottesville, and is recognized by the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Castle Hill was the home of Dr. Thomas Walker (1715–1794) and his wife, Mildred Thornton Meriwether (widow of Nicholas Meriwether III). Walker was a close friend and the physician of Peter Jefferson, and later the guardian of young Thomas Jefferson after his father's death.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679331