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Genteel Keswick Virginia real estate will fulfill your equestrian dreams.  Keswick was established in 1849 when the Virginia Central Railroad built a depot where it's tracks crossed the road from Charlottesville to Gordonsville. The name came from the estate crossed by the line. 

Many Keswick Va homes were designed and built by Thomas Jefferson. The keswick road is the third most scenic road in America due to it exraordinary amount of elegant Keswick Va farms.

Keswick was the home of Rev. Thornton Rogers (I believe that the home was originally built by Colonel James Clark on land that had been part of Peter Jefferson’s Shadwell holdings). Keswick was named after the lovely town in the Lake District of Cumbria, England. Keswick horse farms are world renowned. And there's the Keswick Hunt too...

The town was a flag stop for the pre-Amtrak FFV in 1947, had a station and agent as of 1948 and, as of 1963, still had a passenger station.

Recent residents include Mr. Las Vegas - Wayne Newton, Sissy Spacek, Art Garfunkel, movie producer Hugh Wilson, Secty of State Lawrence Eagleburger and many others.

The British in Keswick During the War of Independence, British troops, under the leadership of Sir Banastre Tarleton, swooped down on nearby Castle Hill during a raiding sortie. Tarleton surprised several members of the Virginia government in their beds.

One story has it that Dr. Thomas Walker, explorer and owner of Edgewood, presented Tarleton with an elaborate breakfast to detain him before he went on to Monticello and Charlottesville. Another version is that dragoons stole two successive breakfasts, and, by the time Tarleton finally was served, Thomas Jefferson had been warned of the coming of the British.

(A third, less reliable version alludes to "potent mint juleps.") Whatever the delay, it was enough to allow Jefferson and other Virginia leaders to make their escape.

Civil War In 1864, Confederate General James A. Longstreet was ordered to move his troops from Tennessee to Charlottesville. During the encampment, over 10,000 soldiers were quartered at various sites in and around Keswick Depot. No major battles took place in this area.

Today Keswick is home to the Keswick Horse Show and Keswick Hall formerly Laura Ashley's residence now a 5 Star Resort owned by the famed-Orient Express Properties.

There are several Keswick Va homes that are currently NOT listed in the Charlottesville mls. So email us or call and we'll get you those fabulous Keswick farms.

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