Glade Hill, Virginia

Where Glade Hill sits

Glade Hill is a small Franklin County community south of the lake, along the Route 40 corridor between Rocky Mount and Penhook. It's one of the most rural corners of lake country — a handful of listings at a time, generous acreage, and quick access to the Blackwater channel's quiet coves. Buyers who land here usually want land, privacy, and a short drive to the water.

Glade Hill has been here far longer than the lake — its post office has been handing out mail since 1837, and the Burwell-Holland House holds a place on the National Register of Historic Places. Sitting on Route 40 about seven miles east of Rocky Mount, it offers what waterfront rarely can: real acreage and settled farm country, minutes from the Blackwater channel's quiet coves.

Read the book first

Two similar-looking homes on the same cove can differ by hundreds of thousands of dollars — for reasons you can't see in photos. Paul wrote the guide so you can learn the lake before you love the listing.