{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Soldier's Rest | nrhp_type = | designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register | designated_other1_date = March 20, 1996<ref name=register>{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|access-date=5 June 2013}}</ref> | designated_other1_number = 021-0073 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | image = soldiers rest.jpg | caption = Soldier's Rest | location = .3 mi N of Fairfax Ave., approximately .5 mi. E of jct. of US 340 and VA 7, near Berryville, Virginia | coordinates = {{coord|39|09|24|N|77|58|12|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = USA Virginia Northern#USA Virginia#USA | mapframe = yes | mapframe-marker = building | mapframe-zoom = 12 |mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing the location of Soldier’s Rest | built = 1780 | architect = | architecture = Federal | added = May 23, 1996 | area = {{convert|22|acre}} | refnum = 96000579<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
'''Soldier's Rest''' is a historic farmhouse located in Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. It was constructed about 1780<ref name="Loth">, pg 122</ref> for the family of William Morton. The property was later owned, and expanded upon, by Daniel Morgan, a general in the American Revolution. The property was also owned by Col Griffin Taylor, a veteran of the War of 1812. The fact that it was owned by two soldiers gave the home the "Soldier's Rest" moniker.<ref name="Loth"/><ref name="vaNRHPnom">{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Clarke/021-0073_Soldier%27s_Rest_1996_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Soldier's Rest |author=Maral S. Kalbian and J. Daniel Pezzoni| date=January 1996|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Clarke/Soldier's Rest_Photos.htm ''Accompanying photo'']</ref>
Prior to the current house being built, a smaller one stood some 200 yards away, and said to be the place where George Washington stayed when he was surveying the land here for Lord Fairfax in 1748.<ref>Howe, Henry. [https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle14howegoog/page/n261 <!-- pg=233 quote=soldier's rest berryville. --> Historical Collections of Virginia] pg 233-34</ref> <!-- For the moment, I left this on the page, but sources need to be found for this material. I didn't find anything about Civil War troops, either Union or Confederate, staying on this particular farm --> <!-- '''''no documents, records, or literature has been found to indicate the house''''' was converted into a Confederate military hospital during the American Civil War.''' No doumentation exists that''' Local tradition has it that the home and the grounds surrounding it (particularly the fallow hay field, where many Confederate soldiers died) are haunted by the spirits of those who perished there. The home was owned for years by the wealthy Harbrick family, some of the earliest settlers in the town and powerful slaveholders. Darius Harbrick was the first known resident of the building. During the American Revolution, which began a mere six year's after construction had been completed, Harbrick provided refuge to Patriots fleeing British officials, and he also covertly supplied the rebels with cash and weapons. When independence was declared in 1776, Harbrick came out publicly on the side of the Americans. As the above information appears to have come from somewhere other than the historians in Berryville/Clarke County, everyone interested in Soldier's Rest would appreciate knowing the source of the Harbrick ownership information, etc. -->
The property was acquired by Charles Paxton-Paret, a direct descendant of Capt. Daniel Johannes Goos and Capt. George Lock of Lake Charles, LA, and long time historic preservationist.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.<ref name=nris/>
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==References== *{{cite book | title= Virginia Landmarks Register | last= Loth | first= Calder | year= 1999 | publisher= University of Virginia Press | location= | isbn= 978-0-8139-1862-4 | pages=601 }}
{{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia}}
Category:Georgian architecture in Virginia Category:Houses in Clarke County, Virginia Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Clarke County, Virginia Category:Plantation houses in Virginia Category:Berryville, Virginia
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