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Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district near Burlington, West Virginia.

Last updated September 26, 2026

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Overview

Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia, in the United States. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. The main house was completed in 1853 and is a two-story, L-shaped brick dwelling composed of a side-gable-roofed, five-bay building with a rear extension in the Federal style. It features a three-bay, one-story front porch supported by four one-foot-square Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are a number of contributing buildings including a washhouse and cellar, outhouse, a dairy and ice house, a meat house, a garage, a hog house, poultry houses, a bank barn with silo, and a well. The family cemetery is across the road west of the main house. Located nearby and in the district is "Woodside," a schoolhouse built about 1890, and a tenant house and summer kitchen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

History

Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. The main house was completed in 1853. It is a two-story, L-shaped brick dwelling composed of a side-gable-roofed, five-bay building with a rear extension in the Federal style, featuring a three-bay, one-story front porch supported by four one-foot-square Tuscan order columns. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. Among the contributing buildings are a washhouse and cellar, outhouse, a dairy and ice house, a meat house, a garage, a hog house, poultry houses, a bank barn with silo, and a well. The family cemetery is across the road west of the main house. Located nearby and in the district is "Woodside," a schoolhouse built about 1890, and a tenant house and summer kitchen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

  • 1996

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

  • 1890

    Schoolhouse "Woodside" built about this year.

  • 1853

    Main house completed.

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