Family:William Cabell and Margaret Jordan (2)

Union Hill was constructed by Dr. William Cabell's son, Colonel William Cabell, Sr. (1730-1798), starting in 1775 and ending four years later. The house was called Union Hill to reflect the importance of the union of colonies that formed a new country.

Building supplies were scarce during the American Revolution, so much of the house was constructed from materials at the site. Beams and boards were cut from heart of oak, pine, poplar, and walnut trees on the property. Bricks, nails, and spikes were all made locally.

Union Hill contained a substantial number of outbuildings, including a spinning and weaving house, sewing room and laundry, a storeroom for fruits and vegetables, picking house, dyeing house, smokehouse, kitchen, coach house, ice house, barns, stables, cow houses, a chicken house, dwellings for servants, slaves, and craftsmen, shops for a cobbler, blacksmith, cooper, wheelwright, and mason, a tannery, distillery, gristmill, corn house, tobacco house, and dairy.

Source: The Cabell Foundation Website

Union Hill Plantation, Cabell Home