Edgeworth
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Edgeworth (ca. 1837) is one of the largest antebellum plantation houses in Albemarle County. It was built on the site of the Rev. James Maury parsonage, where Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe received their early education. Located in the Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District.
William Fitzhugh Gordon Jr. (1823-1904), clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1859 to 1865, was born at “Edgeworth” to William Fitzhugh Gordon and his second wife, Elizabeth (Lindsay) Gordon.[1]
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