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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1797/00/00 Janet Carter Home By 1797, Edward Carter's Cloverland is a 4,000-acre farm with a main house, farm houses and stables. The ruins of the main house are located c 1,000 feet south of John Marshall Hwy.
1797/02/24 Edward Carter Home Edward Carter of Clover Land signs his will. Provisions are made for his son Fayette, any future children and to build a kitchen suitable to the dwelling house for his wife Jane.
1800/04/01 John Hill Carter Born Janet Carter, wife of Edward Carter, gives birth to a son, John Hill Carter at Cloverdale Farm in Richmond County, Virginia.
1806/04/00 Edward Carter Died Edward Carter is killed when a millrace he is building collapses. Carter is buried at Cloverland-Carter Cemetery in the middle of a cornfield at 16801 John Marshall Hwy about 500 yards south of the ruins of "Cloverland".
1809/11/25 SOME VALUABLE SLAVES belonging to the estate of Edward Carter deceased will be offered at Public Auction on Wednesday, the 10th of January next, at HAY MARKET.... They will be sold in families and for cash. - Ad in the Alexandria Gazette
1868/02/22 John Hill Carter In Memoriam John Hill Carter is buried at Cloverland. Carter's headstone was moved from Cloverland to the Little Georgetown Cemetery at Broad Run in Fauquier County. His actual grave and footstone remain at Cloverland.
1980/00/00 Cloverland house is destroyed sometime after 1979.

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