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200-year-old, 400-acre Virginia estate on Mattaponi River going up for auction
A 200-year-old estate on the Mattaponi River in King and Queen County will be auctioned next week, with proceeds going to help the Richmond SPCA. Holly Hill, which sits on 400 acres of land in the community of St. Stephens Church, includes horse stables, two ponds, recreational land, several outbuildings and formal gardens. The estate has been on the National Register of Historic Places and ...
The Conservation Fund acquires 1,000-acre Fones Cliffs property at auction for $8.1M
The Conservation Fund announced Friday it has acquired nearly 1,000 acres along the Rappahannock River in Richmond County to protect the largest remaining unconserved portion of Fones Cliffs. “These are iconic, 80- to 100-feet-tall cliffs in some places,” said Bryan Hofmann, deputy director of Friends of the Rappahannock, a regional nonprofit conservation group. “Folks like […] The post The Conservation Fund acquires 1,000-acre Fones Cliffs property at auction for $8.1M appeared first on Virginia Mercury.
Controversial Fones Cliffs Planned Development Site Now Up for Bankruptcy Auction
Plans for luxury development on a strip of forested cliffs along Virginia’s Rappahannock River may not come to fruition, a bankruptcy sale notice confirms. The 1,000-acre property on an ecologically and historically valuable stretch of Fones Cliffs in Richmond County will be auctioned off during an online sale on Nov. 3 to help satisfy the owners’ debts.
Newport News purchased 1,500 acres for a reservoir it never built. Now it’s selling off the land at a fraction of the price.
More than 20 years year ago, the city began scooping up chunks of land in King William County with the plan of building a reservoir that would help provide drinking water for the region. It was ambitious, costly and never should have happened — based on the flawed projection that the region didn’t have enough water for future growth. The $289 million project fell apart in 2009, but not until ...
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