This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1180.1 Message Board Post: Lloyd, if you are referring to the ROSEWELL ruins located on Carter Creek, Gloucester Co.--no, it was not named for a person. It was built and lived in by the Page family, it had later owners but none named Rosewell. One myth has it that the water "rose well" in a spring very close by, hence the name. Some research was done on the naming however nothing was found to my knowledge.