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Slave Quarters - Ridgeley, West Virginia
Ridgeley, West Virginia is located in Mineral County, directly across the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland.
As noted in "Ridgeley and Carpendale, West Virginia - From 1759, A History" by Gary Lee Clites, Sr., George Calmes built his stately mansion as the centerpiece of a growing estate high atop a bluff in what is now Ridgeley, West Virginia. This was in about 1793 or 1794 and at a time when Mineral was still a part of Hampshire County and West Virginia still a part of Virginia.