Quarter Place Entrance

Quarter Place Entrance. Patrick Henry's Red Hill. The Quarter Place is a one-mile, down-and-back trail where the enslaved and later free black population lived at Red Hill. Along the trail are an exhibit cabin, original cabin foundations, tobacco barn, ordering pit, and the Quarter Place Enslaved and African American Cemetery in which at least 147 graves are present. The one-mile, round-trip walk is moderately difficult., The name "Quarter Place" appears on 19th-century deeds and maps of Red Hill to describe the grouping of living quarters from before Patrick Henry's ownership of Red Hill in the 1790s until the mid-20th century. This area was also an industrial site for tobacco production, which was grown on the east bank of the Staunton River, about one mile south o this spot. Other than cabins and structures used in the tobacco curing process, kitchen gardens and livestock pastures would have been in this area. In henry's day, this land would have been open fields as opposed to forested., Continuing research and archaeology of the Quarter Place is a priority as Red Hill seeks to uncover a more complete picture of what life was like for those who lived and labored here.