Chapman Forest On the Potomac, near the Nation's Capital — expansive, unspoiled nature and history —

Mount Aventine is a circa 1840 manor house build in the antebellum style of architecture. As of April 18, 1996, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A cedar lined driveway leads to the house and ends in a circle. The rear of the house has an exceptional view of the Potomac River.

In 1750 Nathaniel Chapman purchased the property around Mt. Aventine. Members of the Chapman family would reside on the property for the next 165 years. The Chapman house was being built at the same time their close friends George and Ann Mason were building Gunston Hall on the opposite side of the Potomac. The manor house known as Mount Aventine was built by Pearson Chapman in 1840, the great grandson of Nathaniel Chapman, after the original house near the water burned. He appended the house to a small stone cottage which dates to the late 1700's. The house is an excellent example of antebellum architecture. Today's house structure comprises the original stons cottage, the 1840 house, and several additions. During the Chapman ownership of the property they developed and operated a working plantation, installed a ferry system between Chapman Point and Hallowing Point in Virginia, and operated one of the major shad and river herring fisheries on the Potomac.