Flag Station Gates

Name/Title

Flag Station Gates

Entry/Object ID

2023.35.2

Description

Black-and-white photograph with a decoratively cut white border. Image shows four rubble piers and iron gates. Tall grasses and trees fill the image. Written on reverse: "old gateway leading into grounds at 'Red Hill'"

Made/Created

Date made

1945 - 1954

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

This photograph was taken of the stone flag station gates on the southern portion of Red Hill. The gates were built around 1906, shortly after Lucy Gray Henry Harrison (1857–1944) sold a 26-acre tract of land south of the main grounds to the Tidewater Railway (now Norfolk Southern). The gates were part of a system of iron fencing that flanked the tracks, meant to protect livestock from passing trains. The photograph was included with a collection of photos of Red Hill taken during the residency of Sandra Courtney Garrett (1944–living) and her family in the mid-to-late 1940s. The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation purchased the photos from Garrett in July 2023.