Red Hill, the last home and burial place of Patrick Henry, the "Voice of the Revolution," Virginia's first governor after the Commonwealth declared independence from Great Britain, and fighter for individual rights. As a revolutionary patriot, statesman, and orator, Patrick Henry expressed the growing colonial discontent with imperial rule in his Stamp Act Speech of 1765 and his famous "Liberty or Death" speech of 1775. He served five one-year terms as Governor of Virginia from 1776-1779 and from 1784-1786. Henry opposed Virginia's ratification of the Constitution of the United States in 1788 because the document originally contained no Bill of Rights. After ratification, he worked tirelessly to assure that its first ten amendments were added Visit Charlotte County's Official Website!