Visualising the Virginia 'frontier' and its early colonial settlers, it is easy to imagine only wooden stockades and log cabins. But as early as the mid-18th Century, some very substantial and noteworthy buildings were constructed, some of which still stand today as witness to the ambitions and ingenuity of the first Englishmen in the region. An imposing dwelling-house, Abram's Delight, built in Winchester in 1754 by the son of the area's first white settler, is an interesting example.
