Mayhurst Inn
Your Host: Jack North, Innkeeper

Mayhurst is a magnificent and rare Italianate Victorian gem; remarkable for its fanciful exuberant architecture and oval-spiral staircase ascending four floors. It is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and a Virginia Historic Landmark for its historic as well as architectural merit. Mayhurst is also one of the historical properties on the "Journey Through Hallowed Ground" - the Historical Route 15 and Route 20 corridor of that runs from Gettysburg to Monticello.

You may wish to tour all four floors of the mansion complete with a climb to the rooftop tower where General "Stonewall" Jackson observed his troops. Imagine the bustling 2800 acre plantation of 1860, as you wander into the summer kitchen and smokehouse, past the schoolhouse for the children of the plantation, then continue touring 37 acres with 200 year old trees to the pond and spring house. You are walking where Confederate troops pitched their tents during the winter of 1863-64 protecting the mansion which served as headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia's III Corps. General A.P. Hill commanded over 18,000 troops from a tent on the front lawn. General Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson were also guests.