By JULIE YOUNG
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Five Crozier-area homes and a historic restaurant will be open tomorrow for the Goochland County Historical Society's 2008 house tour. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tickets are available at Hampton House on Grove Avenue in Richmond, Fresh Catch Seafood at Short Pump Crossing, Charles Luck Stone Center in Manakin, Edible Garden at 12506 River Road, Javajodi's Coffee Café in Goochland Courthouse, Tanglewood Ordinary Restaurant in Maidens, Butcher's Block Market in Oilville and the Goochland County Historical Society, 2875 River Road West.
Advance tickets are $20. Tour-day tickets are $25. Proceeds go toward preserving Goochland history.
Included on the tour are:
First Union School, 1522 Old Mill Road. Originally a school for black students in 1913, the facility became a private residence in 1959. Current owners are Bill and Grace King.
Old Mill Cottage, 1350 Old Mill Road. This sprawling home on Genito Creek has remained true to its roots as a one-room hunting cabin. Built about 1920, it was expanded in the 1940s but remained largely unchanged until 1993, when it was purchased by the current owners. The interior is an eclectic mix of Early American and British antiques, rough-hewn beams, soapstone floors, and reclaimed doors and windows.
The Mitchell Homeplace, 1498 Oakencroft Lane. Henry Clay Mitchell built this home in 1897. It remained in the Mitchell family through three generations but sat empty from the late 1990s until the current owners arrived in 2003. The front porch has slender Doric columns, indicating the home of a prosperous farmer in the late 19th century.
1209 The Forest. This close reproduction of Williamsburg's Robert Carter House was built with assistance from Colonial Williamsburg. Owners Jim and Ginger Sanderlin have just moved into the house, which features a kitchen with 19th-century pine cupboards.
RiversBend, owned by Rob and Lynda Bloch, sits on the banks of the James River in Crozier. Its architecture is described as Mississippi Lowland architecture meets Thomas Jefferson-neoclassical/Palladian. An octagonal observatory with windows on all sides offers spectacular views of the river and surrounding pastureland.
Tanglewood Ordinary Restaurant, 2210 River Road West, Maidens. The log structure was built in the 1920s as a general store/country roadhouse.
Contact Julie Young at (804) 649-6732 or jyoung@timesdispatch.com. 
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