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Historical Highway MarkersChatmossA-115
Chatmoss was one of about 50 Hairston family plantations in Virginia, North Carolina, and Mississippi. This vast network encompassed tens of thousands of acres and was worked by thousands of enslaved African Americans. Alcey and Samuel Harden Hairston received the 2,900-acre Chatmoss from Alcey's parents, Samuel and Agnes Hairston, among the wealthiest couples in Virginia. Samuel Harden Hairston died in 1870 when a gallery at the Virginia Capitol building collapsed. Fire consumed the original Queen Anne–style plantation house on 4 July 1928. An English country–style house replaced it but later burned. In 1958 Chatmoss Country Club was established on the site.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Chatmoss Country Club history “Colonel Harden Hairston,” The Henry Bulletin, 15 July 1927. Judith America Parks Hill, History of Henry County (Bullryin Printing and Publishing Co., 1925), 192. Martinsville Daily Bulletin, 50th anniversary edition, July 1939. William Moore, et al., The Henry County, Virginia, Heritage Book (Tennessee: Walsworth Publishing Co., 2010), 1, 9. Virginia G. and Lewis G. Pedigo, History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia (The Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co., 1933), 154. Henry Weincek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999), 8. Henry County Deed Book, 16:553 Land Tax Records, Henry County, 1850s Personal Property Tax Records, Henry County, 1851, 1860, 1861 US Census, 1860, Slave Schedule www.thehairstonstory.com |