Hollin Hall was an 18th-century plantation house three miles (5 km) southwest of Alexandria in Fairfax County , Virginia . George Mason , a United States Founding Father , gave Hollin Hall to his third son, Thomson Mason , through deeds of gift in 1781 and 1786. The land, as given, totalled 676 acres (2.74 km ). Thomson Mason was the first member of the Mason family to actually live here. Before then, tenants farmed the property.
6-556: Hollin Hall may refer to: Hollin Hall (Virginia) , United States Hollin Old Hall , Cheshire, England Hollin Hall, Cumbria , Crook, Cumbria, England Hollin Hall, North Yorkshire , England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hollin Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-490: A house constructed. Thomson and his wife, Sarah McCarty Chichester, celebrated Christmas, 1788 in the new house. However, as late as 1792 George Mason wrote Thomson about difficulties procuring lumber for the Hollin Hall front porch. Fire destroyed the house in 1824, four years after Thomson's death. An outbuilding survived and became known as Little Hollin Hall. In 1852, Thompson's son George Mason of "Spring Bank" sold
18-458: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hollin_Hall&oldid=1021900920 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hollin Hall (Virginia) George Mason also helped Thomson Mason have
24-460: The next several years. The congregation also worked against the Vietnam War and for affordable housing. In 1983, the church sold part of the property to finance construction of a new meeting house to replace the old car garage. Fairfax County added the building to The Fairfax County Inventory of Historic Sites in 1993. In 1994, with the help of Alexandria's Campagna Center , the main hall
30-408: The property to Quakers Edward and Eliza Gibbs, and in 1868 Mason wrote to congratulate them on their success in growing wheat, which inspired his own son to try the crop despite financial difficulties after the war. Hollin Hall continued occupied well into the 20th century. In 1916, industrialist Harley Wilson and his wife bought the property and constructed a new residence, pool and other buildings. It
36-557: Was advertised for sale again in 1938. The Hollin Hills (whose name was inspired by the estate) neighborhood, primary to the west and north of Hollin Hall, was developed in the 1940s and is now a historic district of mid-century modern homes and landscape design. Mount Vernon Unitarian Church bought the property from Mrs. Merle Thorpe in 1958. It hosted a Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) training workshop in 1961, as well as other civil rights activities, both local and national, during
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