A brick orangery, known locally as the flower house, is one of only two such dependencies surviving in Hanover County.  Many of the old flowers still remain on the property . . . pink rambling roses, white McCartney roses, large lilac bushes, jonquils, crepe myrtle, boxwood and an old arbor-vitae tree.

 

The three-acre tract on which Church Quarter is located was originally part of a land patent granted in 1719 to Richard Harris, a member of the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg.  Other prominent Hanoverians to own the property were Nelson Berkeley of Airwell and John Thornton, a juror on the Parson's Cause, which was argued at Hanover Courthouse by Patrick Henry.  Ruth Lee Pearson, a professor of Romance Languages at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, was the last resident owner.

 

Church Quarter had a small role in history when General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, on his way from Richmond to Gordonsville, stopped here for water in 1862.

 

On April 1, 1969, Church Quarter was purchased by the Scotchtown Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.  By restoring and maintaining the cabin, they have, in a tangible way, perpetuated the memory and the spirit of the men and women who achieved America's independence.