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Pine Knot
3 lokale anbefaler,
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Jackie
September 3, 2014
Fantastic hunting cabin and get-a-way for President Theodore Roosevelt. Must call ahead to view. Right across the street from Quinta Bela.
Tina
March 24, 2022
Pine Knot is a historic cabin located 14 miles south of Charlottesville, Virginia in Albemarle County, Virginia. The cabin was owned and occupied by former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Roosevelt, and used by Roosevelt and the first lady while he was president, although no official business took place there. In 1905, Mrs. Roosevelt spent $280 to purchase the fifteen-acre property with its rustic worker's cabin, and she bought an additional seventy-five acres in 1911. The cabin is owned by the Edith and Theodore Roosevelt Pine Knot Foundation and is open for visits by appointment. Pine Knot is a rustic cottage near Keene, Virginia, that served as the Albemarle County getaway for President Theodore Roosevelt and his family from 1905-1908. The cottage sits on a knoll above Miller's Creek on a land tract fronting on the old Scottsville Road, now called Route 712. This was the same road used by over 5000 Union soldiers, belonging to General Philip Sheridan's command, on their March 1865 mission to destroy the James River and Kanawha Canal locks near Scottsville. In May 1905, Edith Kermit Roosevelt purchased this unfinished farmhand's cottage and fifteen acres from William "Willie" Wilmer, an old family friend and owner of Plain Dealing farm nearby. The cottage's purchase price of $280 included the cost of adding a porch plus some remodeling of the cottage's interior. These alterations consisted of adding two end fireplaces, making one 12' x 32' single lodge room of the first floor, and partitioning the second floor into three small bedrooms. Edith named the cottage "Pine Knot" because of the abundance of pine trees surrounding it. President Roosevelt's first visit to Pine Knot occurred on June 9, 1905, and as described in Teddy's letter to his son, Kermit, he found it to be "a perfectly delightful little place." During that weekend, he rustled up a breakfast of fried eggs and bacon and later surprised his wife by cooking up two chickens. Edith, who did not cook, boiled water from a spring down the hill for their tea. Between 1905-1908, Roosevelt made eight trips to Pine Knot where he enjoyed sitting in a rocking chair, reading books, watching birds, taking long walks, and clearing away small trees blocking their porch view. Often Pine Knot is described as Roosevelt's hunting lodge because he loved to come there at hunting time.
Pine Knot is a historic cabin located 14 miles south of Charlottesville, Virginia in Albemarle County, Virginia. The cabin was owned and occupied by former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Roosevelt, and used by Roosevelt and the first lady while he was pre…
Elmo
December 16, 2014
Teddy Roosevelt's home is at the east end of our road
Placering
Scottsville, VA