IN COUNTRY

CHATTIN’S RUN – A TRUE COUNTRY ESTATE PARCELS

Georgetowner – March 8, 2006

If you dream has been to enjoy life in the beautiful, tranquil and rich setting of Virginia hunt country, you couldn’t do better than taking a serious look at Chattins Run in Fauquier County, an 856-acre site near Rectortown not far from Middleburg.

Once known as the Flint Hill Farm and renamed Chattins Run, the farm has a pedigree you can’t beat, having once been owned by George Washington himself. The Farm, long on the market was sold last year and is being developed by Flint Hill Partners, LLC.

The property has 21 estate parcels for sale, among them a manor house that’s up for $5 million. There are seven Lost Corner Parcel lots of 158 acres, 2.6,3.2,3.9,3.8,4.0 and 2.85 acres; six Paris Village lots of 83 acres, 1.9 acres, 2.4, 1.7, 1.5 and 2.6 acres and seven Estate parcels, divided into four parcels of 100 acres, and three 50-acre parcels.

The manor house was part of a land grant dating back to the 1760s and 1770s and was sold in payment of a debt by the original owners to George Washington as Flint Hill Farm, renamed by Washington to Chattins Run. It remained in Washington’s possession until 1799.

The property was bought by John Douglas Rawlings in 1833 and remained in the Rawlings family’s possession until 1944. In 1945, it was deeded to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wilson.

The manor house has three bedrooms, four full bathrooms, three half bathrooms and five fireplaces. The manor house property includes a guest house, a carriage house with apartment and two and four car garages on 15 acres.

The entire property of 845 acres includes some of the most beautiful vistas in the area of woods, streams and valleys in Fauquier County, and one of the Estate parcels includes road frontage and an air strip while another includes a horse facility.

It’s true country estate living. All the parcels are available pending administrative subdivision approval from Fauquier County. Interested parties should call for individual pricing on parcels. Reservations are being currently taken with a $100,000 deposit.

Interested parties should call Long & Foster Realtors – Andie Yahn (540) 229-0774 or go to www.chattinsrun.com