Mount Athos
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Sneakin Deacon
N 37° 23.110 W 079° 04.053
17S E 671079 N 4139353
Once the Home of William J. Lewis who was an officer in the Revolutionary War.
Waymark Code: WMK8H
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/06/2006
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member showbizkid
Views: 86

Mount Athos was first known as Buffalo Lick Plantation. William Lewis who commanded a corps of mountain riflemen during the siege of Yorktown in 1781 built the home in 1796. The Plantation once stood near Lynchburg, Virginia on a hilltop overlooking the James River. The home was destroyed by fire in 1876. The Text of the marker reads:

MOUNT ATHOS
“Two Miles north stand massive sandstone walls and four chimney’s, the ruins of Mount Athos, overlooking a bend in the James River. The house was built about 1800, for William J. Lewis (1766-1828), on land that had bee patented in 1742 by John Bolling and called Buffalo Lick Plantation. Lewis, who bought the land from Bolling’s heirs in 1796, had commanded rifleman at Yorktown in 1781. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1810-1811; 1814-1817), and the U. S. Congress (1817-1819). Mount Athos stood one story high on a raised basement with a portico on the north front end and two octagonal projections on the south. It burned in 1876.”
Marker Number: K-149

Marker Title: Mount Athos

Marker Location: Route 460, 500-feet west of Mount Athos Road

County or Independent City: Campbell County

Web Site: [Web Link]

Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources, 1997

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