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Viewing Place: "BERRY HILL"
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BERRY HILL |
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STATE ROAD 863 |
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BETWEEN EDEN NC AND DANVILLE VA, VA |
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House / Private Residence (Haunted)
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| Submitted By: |
jstarheel |
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06/30/08, 6:10 PM (Eastern)
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This is in response to the info on Berry Hill plantation. just to clarify, Its in Virginia not North Carolina. My best friend use to live directly across the road from this home. Its on the national registry of historical places. Let me start off by saying this place is very creepy. The road it is on is in between two cities and has absolutely no street lighting at all.The stretch of road has taken a few lives over the years due to being so tight and winding.My friend`s dad and I use to do work on the house from time to time. The house itself is very ominous. It has about 20 rooms as far as I can remember. There`s two outlying cemeteries behind the house also.Every room has a bell attached to the overhead door with distinctive sounds to them so the slaves would know which room to go to when rang. There have been several times when we went to the property at night.We have heard sounds such as whispers, footsteps,odd shadows that wouldn`t move in normal directions(IE:circles,up and down).We never had the foresight to actually take pictures or use any kind of recording devices. Trust me if I had the chance to go back there again I would do it in an instant.Down the road from the plantation about a mile south there`s a old cemetery behind a old iron fence.We have been in this cemetery a few times(Intoxicated mostly).Once inside there`s and old above ground vault.We were snooping around this vault one night and we heard someone whisper `GO`.Then we saw what looked like the top of this vault sliding. We looked at each other and took a few steps back.When we looked again it looked as nothing had disturbed the vault in ages.This whole road as well as the plantation itself has seen a lot of tragedy. It is not recommended that you go to any of these places alone at night.They are on private property as well.So please get permission before you do.I plan on taking a trip to the area again sometime soon.
I`m a very serious person. I don`t believe in something unless I see or hear it for myself. I always rule out the obvious before making judgment.
This post has been updated as of 7/26/10. Very soon my wife and I are going to take a trip to the area. Maybe a few pics. Maybe a little more info. Who knows. Hopefully something productive will come from this visit.
Below is a little history of the house.
Berry Hill, located on the Dan River, was built in four sections for four different families. Around 1745 the first section was built by Peter Perkins on land that his father Nicholas Perkins had willed to him. This section is almost lost, but it remains unique with its long sloping roof, covering the porch and an end room. It has a fine old chimneys laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers, and its ceilings and mantels are high. One of Peter Perkins’s daughters, Alcey (1766-1814) married Peter Hairston (1752-1832), son of Robert and Ruth Stovall Hairston.
The first addition to Berry Hill was made in 1843 when an elegant little story-and-a-half house was built. It has beautiful chimneys, designed with graceful slopes and breaks. Even though hooked onto its brothers and sisters, it is probably the most admirable addition. The third addition was joined at some later time and has a broad rock chimney. The fourth addition was made in 1910 with a two-story house dominating the family cluster and pulling it all together into an intriguing unit. The whole home gives harmony to the whole.
After the Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781 during the American Revolution, Berry Hill became a hospital for the wounded. This story is told in Maude Carter Clement’s The Turn of the Wheel. An old family story also says that Berry Hill served as headquarters for a French general a few days before the retreat from Guilford Court House.
Berry Hill was probably used for a large encampment at some time because a great flood in the Dan River, prior to 1890, washed the soil away and exposed a number of Revolutionary muskets, bayonets, and camp kettles. It is also legendary that a musket ball from the fighting hit a chimney of this home.
This large estate was said to have originally been named Buryhill because of the large number of British soldiers who died and were buried here. This story seems to verify the above story. Averse to a change in the name, which for generations had identified the place, the name was changed only by two letters, making the attractive name of Berry Hill.
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