East Branch Loop

Major Thomas Massie built Blue Rock for his son Thomas Jr. in 1816. The house was built in the reversed fashion to Pharsalia, having one and a half story in the front with dormers, and the back wing of one story. Blue Rock burned in 1886, surviving only Dr. Massie’s office and chimney, built apart … Read more

Mount Rouge was built around 1816 by John Cobbs and his wife Jane on a tract purchased two years earlier from Thomas and Ann Fitzhugh. The land was part of the vast acreage originally owned by Parson Robert Rose. Cobbs named it Mont Rouge (French for Red Hill) from the color of the soil. Although … Read more