Mount Walla is an originally small but finely detailed Federal-style house overlooking Scottsville and the James River in southern Albemarle County, Virginia. The hall-parlor-plan dwelling is graced by classical entry porticos on both the river and land fronts, and inside are door and window surrounds with entablatures, a plaster ceiling medallion, and a three-part Federal mantel with sunbursts and colonettes. Mount Walla most likely dates to the period 1820 to 1840 when Scottsville emerged as a regional river and canal port, although the house may incorporate eighteenth-century fabric. In 1821 the property was acquired by Scottsville businessman Richard Moon, whose early life in the west earned him the nickname "Tennessee Dick," and in 1836 it was purchased by Peter Field Jefferson, grandnephew of the president. Jefferson made a fortune by speculating in James River and Kanawha Canal scrip, and his income was supplemented by ownership of the town's ferry and a fleet of canal boats as well as a tobacco warehouse and mills in Albemarle and neighboring Buckingham counties. Mount Walla passed to Jefferson's grandson Peter V Foland and his descendants, and in 1966 it was acquired by popular hostess Mildred C Brown. The house received a series of additions during the second half of the twentieth century, more than doubling its size. Today a guest house joins the main house, a family cemetery with Victorian iron fence, and an antebellum smokehouse on the beautifully landscaped grounds. - NRHP Registration 4 October 2006,