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The Judge Henry Wood, Jr., House, a well-rendered essay in the Queen Anne style, is actually a clever reworking of a late Federal structure. The ingenuity of its final builder in blending portions of two previous constructions into the final house is both amazing and amusing. Residents included members of the Clark Royster family: the founder of the Mecklenburg County town of Clarksville, men involved in building turnpikes and railroads, members of the General Assembly, and a founder of the Buffalo Springs spa. The house, which contributes to the Clarksville Historic District, bears the name of Judge Wood, who lived there for almost 50 years, but never actually owned it. During the Civil War, the family of Confederate General William Mahone was sequestered there.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
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