Dewberry
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Dewberry is a historic home and approximately 480-acre farm located at Beaverdam in western Hanover County, Virginia. It was built in 1833 for the Rev. John Cooke, first rector of the now-historic Trinity Church nearby (Rev. Cooke laying the cornerstone in 1830). In 1831, Rev. Cooke married the widowed Elizabeth Edmonia Churchill Berkeley, who had inherited about 227 acres from her late husband. Rev. Cooke was an avid gardener, and some of the boxwoods in the formal garden date from his era. His widow purchased the property from his estate when he died in 1861, and bequeathed it to her daughters, one of whom owned it until nearly 1906. However, the property had several different owners in the early 20th century, before its purchase by Samuel Dixon in 1920, who restored and modified the existing structures, as well as constructed a dairy and made provision for electricity. His descendants still lived on the property in 1996 when it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places . The brick dwelling has a five-part Palladian-design. The two-story, three-bay, hip-roofed, central block connects to two-story flanking wings by one-story, one-bay hyphens. The property also contains contributing formal gardens, a small brick outbuilding, and slave quarters. Media related to Dewberry (Beaverdam, Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons Dewberry, Little River vicinity, Gum Tree, Hanover County, VA: 3 photos at Historic American Buildings Survey
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When was Dewberry listed on the National Register?
Dewberry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1996.
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Dewberry is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Dewberry is recorded as the industrial era.
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