Name/Title
Flag Station SignEntry/Object ID
2023.35.3Description
Black-and-white photograph with a decoratively cut white border. Image shows a wood sign with the words "PATRICK HENRY" painted in black on a white background. The sign stands to the left of a curved line of railroad tracks. Fields and trees make up the background; a utility pole stands to the left of a wood and wire fence.
Written on reverse: "Patrick Henry station at 'Red Hill,' Brookneal, Va."Made/Created
Date made
1945 - 1954Notes
OriginalProvenance
Notes
This photograph was taken of the Patrick Henry station sign near the flag station on the southern portion of Red Hill. The sign was installed along with a set of stone piers and iron fencing 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) in 1906.
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.