Edge Hill, also known as Green Hills and Walker's Ford Sawmill, is a historic home and farm located in

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, near

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. The main house was built in 1833, and is a two-story, brick

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in the Federal-style. It has a standing seam metal gable roof and two interior end chimneys. Attached to the house by a former

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enclosed in 1947, is the former overseer's house, built about 1801. Also on the property are the contributing office, pumphouse,

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, and log-framed barn all dated to about 1833. Below the bluff, adjacent to the railroad and near the

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, are four additional outbuildings: a sawmill and shed (1865), tobacco barn, and a post and beam two-story cattle barn (c. 1947). Archaeological sites on the farm include slave quarters, additional outbuildings and a slave cemetery. an
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in 2008.

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