Mount Airy

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About two miles southwest is Mount Airy, a plantation house built ca. 1800 for Col. Thomas Leftwich (1740-1816). The two-story frame house retains much of its Federal-style woodwork. Leftwich served in the Seven Years' War and was a captain of the Bedford County militia during the Revolutionary War. He was later a lieutenant colonel and commander of Virginia’s 10th militia regiment. Leftwich served Bedford County as a justice, sheriff, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates. About 30 enslaved African Americans worked at Mount Airy. Leftwich and his brothers William, Uriah, and Joel, also veterans of the Revolutionary War, are buried in the property’s family cemetery.

Department of Historic Resources, 2017

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Mount Airy, National Register of Historic Places nomination (1990). Walter Lee Hopkins, Leftwich-Turner Families of Virginia and Their Connections (Harrisonburg: C. J. Carrier Company, 1992), 66-67. Calder Loth, ed., Virginia Landmarks Register, 64. Annie S. Pollard, Bedford Black History, 250 Years (Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library, 2015), 14. DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition, Part 2 (1990). Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967). John H. Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 467.