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The “new” Hickory Hill looks grand following extensive renovations by owners Shannon and Lesia Pritchard. A historic estate, the Pritchards have faced challenges in preserving the home.
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Hickory Hill estate slowly returning to its grandeur
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ocated on 1,732 acres north of state Route 54 between Interstate 95 and U.S. 301 in Hanover County is a residential community known as Hickory Hill. Also tucked away in the community, which historically was known as the Hickory Hill plantation, is a restored manor house that used to be occupied by several generations of a prominent Virginia family during the Civil War. According to the Hanover County Historical Society’s website, Hickory Hill was first made official after a man named Robert Carter, who owned all of the land in that area and gave a piece of it to his daughter, Anne Butler Carter. Her husband’s name was William Fanning Wickham, and, thus, the Wickham family took over the plantation eventually spanning it over 3,300 acres in size.
Construction first began within the Hickory Hill estate in 2010, after Hickory Hill Partners, a group of local investors led by Todd Rogers, a co-owner of Hometown realty and RC-I Builders, bought the 1,732 acres, started selling homes and turned it into a community. The local investors also sold the historic, original manor house and gardens once owned by the Wickham family that is contained in a 50-acre lot to a preservationist and his wife. The couple, Shannon and Lesia Pritchard, has been restoring the house since their purchase. “The status is ongoing — I will never finish it — because some of the stuff I did when I started [already needs] to be done again,” said Shannon Pritchard. He said painting is just one of the many projects that needs to be redone since he started. “The first and second floors are complete and in
very good order. The basement and third floor still need major work,” said Pritchard. There’s a lot of work that comes with preserving a historic home; it’s a challenge that married couples normally aren’t seen taking on. “I can’t say that my wife decided to do this, but she’s known me a long time — long enough to realize that what I bite out, I eventually chew,” he said. Before purchasing the historic home, Pritchard lived in eastern Hanover, and has always held an interest in the history revolving the Civil War. “I decided to do it because, though I loved where I lived, the incredible amount of history, especially as it relates to the War Between the States, drew me like a moth to a flame. I have studied the Confederacy for 35 years, and no house in Virginia, besides the White House of the Confederacy, was so see ESTATE, pg. 23
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