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Chapter 2
"Reminiscenses from my early childhood, to 1976."
In the year 1799, a Mr. John Buster sold to Thomas Carrsbrook Plantation, a tract of land in North Garden,
Isreals Gap, on the road from Cross Roads to Batesville marie County, Virginia. This land was given by him to his son,
Dabney Carr, b.1777 d.1862, and was known as Aspin Hill Plantation. Tradition as told to me is that the name Aspin Hill was derived from a number of Aspin trees growing nearby. Thomas Carr was born in Louisa County, Virginia at Bear Castle, on the old Cartersville road and Elk Creek. Henry Harriss (known as Aspin Hill Harriss), lived on the adjoining plantation, Aspin Hill.
It could be that Thomas Carr named Aspin Hill in Albemarle County after his neighbors home in Louisa County, Virginia.
Aspin Hill is located in North Garden, Albemarle County, Virginia, at the foot of Isreals Gap. It was customary at this period in time for the farm people tp place bells on their livestock, each animal having a bell of a different tone so that by listening to the bells they could keep track of where the various animals were. Late afternoon the various animals would come home for the night. Aspin Hill, being located in the center of a valley, with mountains on three sides, a combination of the different notes of the bells, the lowing of the cows plus the echo from the mountain sides, produced what my mother told me, "The sweetest music I ever heard". I have as a child experienced this phenomenon. It is indeed something never to be forgotten.
There was at Aspin Hill a campground for farmers traveling from the north-west part of Albemarle County, Virginia, to Charlottesville, Virginia. Aspin Hill was the halfway stopover for over-night camping. Thus Aspin Hill was well-known to everyone passing this way. My mother, Mary Hansford Carr, frequently visited Aspin Hill and told me of a number of Indians camping at this campground. Her husband, William James Carr, bought for her a number of pieces of beadwork from these Indians. I am sorry to say that these articles were lost in the hurricane of 1947. Aspin Hill today is in a perfect state of preservation, thanks to the present owners, the Anderson Family. Part of the original estate was sold early 1800 to the Gillock family. I have just received a letter from Mr. Robert Rogers, the present owner who has restored this old home to its original condition. Mr. Rogers is a descendant of Mary Carr Rogers and John Rogers of Aspin Hill Plantation.
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