Geddes is a historic home located near Clifford,

Amherst County, Virginia Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its county seat is also named Amhers ...

. It was built in several stages between about 1762 and the mid-19th century. It is a -story, Colonial era frame house of post and beam construction with a hipped roof. It is referred to as the oldest house in Amherst County by area residents. Its builder, Hugh Rose, is best remembered as the friend of

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Indepe ...

who looked after Jefferson's family at Geddes during the British raid on Charlottesville in 1781. an
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in 1983.

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