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In the early 18th century, on part of Alexander Spotswoods vast land grant from King George II, was built a small home. In a document dated 1735 the home was leased to Charles Dewitt for one ear of Indian Corn annually for four years and six hundred pounds weight of good sound merchantable top tobacco every year thereafter.
The earliest portion of the house is one room wide and two rooms deep with a loft. The two first level rooms have corner fireplaces, a distinctive Tidewater influence, both served by a single chimney on the gable-end wall. There is a warming cupboard built above one of the fireplaces. The Residence was expanded ca. 1839 with the addition of three levels including an English basement designed as a winter kitchen and dining room. Here, today, is still the 19th century food storage pit near the fireplace. Oral tradition has it here was hidden whiskey and children ...
The earliest portion of the house is one room wide and two rooms deep with a loft. The two first level rooms have corner fireplaces, a distinctive Tidewater influence, both served by a single chimney on the gable-end wall. There is a warming cupboard built above one of the fireplaces. The Residence was expanded ca. 1839 with the addition of three levels including an English basement designed as a winter kitchen and dining room. Here, today, is still the 19th century food storage pit near the fireplace. Oral tradition has it here was hidden whiskey and children during the Civil War. Today, the house is beaded weatherboard siding capped with a standing-seam metal roof. Principal rooms have ceilings of 10' with beautiful heart pine floors and original woodwork details.
Windsor resides in unusual privacy where the vestiges of man are absent. This splendid little manor has undergone extensive restoration over the last 15 years and requires no effort to begin use as a private retreat or permanent residence. Here, too, is a log-cabin guest quarters with bedroom, stone fireplace, full bath and private deck overlooking Mountain Run. A lovely kitchen garden features an 18th century cabin as storage space. The stable is nearby with fenced paddocks, waterers and run-in-sheds. There are 6+ miles of ATV and/or horseback riding trails on the farm. A billiard building and equipment shed complete the improvements.
The Property fronts 6,133 on the south bank of the Rapidan with elevations ranging from 150 to 360. There is an ATV/horse bridge across broad Mountain Run and there is frontage on Mine Run, both of which empty into the Rapidan at Windsor. There are about 125 acres in fertile bottomland, 25 acres in pasture with the balance in mature forest. Farm equipment (most dating from 2006-2008 in excellent order) is conveyed with the farm.
The Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries describes fishing access along this portion of the Rapidan as primitive, meaning difficult, with canoe access miles apart. The reward is a Rapidan where the water is clear, swift, and dominant substrates are bedrock, boulder and cobble providing perfect habitat for smallmouth bass... With the removal of Embrey Dam, shad and striped bass now seasonally migrate upstream beyond Fredericksburg and could ascend to Windsor.
Devils Knob, the highest elevation at Windsor, was one of the Confederat observation posts during the Civil War. From here Robert E. Lees Lieutenants witnessed Ulysses S. Grant amass an army of 122,00 soldiers across the River in Culpeper. Shortly after Midnight on May, 4, 1864 Grants Army crossed the Rapidan just downstream at Germanna to meet Lees forces approaching 100,000 troops and the Battle of the Wilderness began.
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