Historic Gardens of Mt. Holly: A Legacy of the Landscape

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For a long time, the Mount from which Mount Holly takes its name remained a primeval place, covered by virgin forest and a couple of Indian trails and untouched by the axe of the white settler. Because it passed in the course of the greedy hands of guys within the nineteenth century, then again, the Mount lost much of its leafy tapestry and surrounding acreage. In Historic Gardens, Alicia McShulkis brings the landscape to life as she takes you on a tour of Mount Holly’s historic homes and gardens, many of which have vanished over the years.

Read about Ashurst’s secret tunnels utilized by slaves escaping at the underground railroad, the summerhouse where Washington and Lafayette held councils of war and the ghost that haunts Langstaff’s third-floor staircase. From the neatly sculpted Georgian hedgerows to the curved and meandering lines of Capability Brown, the history of Mount Holly is written within the landscape.

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