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A leading historic farm in a region of fine farms, Inglewood occupies a commanding site just north of Harrisonburg in Rockingham County. The property was purchased in 1818 by Robert Gray, a Harrisonburg attorney. Gray built Inglewood’s residence ca. 1849-51 for his younger son Douglas on the occasion of his marriage to Isabella Pinckney, daughter of the diplomat William Pinckney. With its gable roof and regular five-bay façade, the double-pile brick house recalls the Federal dwellings of earlier decades. A full complement of outbuildings and farm buildings reinforces an air of agrarian prosperity. In 1876 Inglewood was purchased by Confederate Gen. John E. Roller, for his parents. Margaret Grattan Weaver, a granddaughter of Gen. Roller, and her late husband James M. Weaver, purchased the estate from Lucy Cabot Roller in 1945. During a subsequent renovation remarkable antebellum folk-carved mantels from a Roller house in Harrisonburg were installed in Inglewood.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
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
