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3 Gloucester homes on this year’s tour

Three Gloucester homes will be open Saturday as part of the local portion of Historic Garden Week in Virginia. Little England Farm at Gloucester Point and Belvinhem Quay and Sweetgrass in Hayes will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Garden Club of Gloucester’s 86th tour.

On the tour, titled “Gloucester’s Window on the Revolution,” visitors will be welcomed inside the homes and their adjacent gardens. Tickets are $45 and will be available on Saturday only at Abingdon Episcopal Church, White Marsh, tour headquarters. 

Little England Farm, owned by Karen and Steve Barrs, will be on the tour for the first time in 49 years. It is a 14-room manor house that is noted for being among the least-altered of Virginia colonial plantation homes, according to Letitia Grant of the Garden Club of Gloucester. She said the home is on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.

A little ways up the county, Belvinhem Quay, owned by Lesl...

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