Greetings - for more information about Bremo, take a look at the entries
in the Virginia Historical Inventory Project (http://eagle.vsla.edu/vhi) -
try a keyword search on Bremo, or Cocke. While the reports and images
are not yet available online, there is quite a bit of information
in the record descriptions. If you find something you need, a hard copy
can be provided until the images are loaded.
One question always leads to another:
In one of the descriptions, Bremo was said to have a "ha-ha" wall around
the main plantation house.
What is a ha-ha wall?
Elizabeth
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> George Cocke??
> Surely you mean John Hartwell Cocke who was born in 1780 and died in 1866.
> Vesta Gordon
>
> Gail Shea wrote:
>
> > I just noticed that Fluvanna isn't on this list. FYI, Bremo, the 7,000 acre
> > plantation of Revolutionary War Gen. George Cocke (Cocke Hall, originial BOV
> > with Jeff, Mad, Monroe, close friend and neighbor of Jefferson, Temperance
> > Society founder) is in Fluvanna, on the James River bluffs (hence, Bremo
> > Bluff). That may be worth your while...Gail
> >
> >
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