Patterson Creek Rd., approximately 1.5 mi. S of jct. with US55-220, Burlington, West Virginia. County/parish: Mineral.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 09, 1997. NRIS 96001569.
15 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures.Also known as:
Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. The main house was completed in 1853, and is a two-story, L-shaped brick dwelling composed of a side-gable-roofed, five-bay building with a rear extension in the Federal style. It features a three-bay, one-story front porch supported by 4 one-foot-square Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are a number of contributing buildings including a washhouse and cellar, outhouse, a dairy and ice house, a meat house, a garage, a hog house, poultry houses, a bank barn with silo, and a well. The family cemetery is across the road west of the main house. Located nearby and in the district is "Woodside," a schoolhouse built about 1890, and a tenant house and summer kitchen.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535665