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"Tower Hill"
"Green Acres?"
Though we're not 100% certain, this could be the house
referred to as Tower Hill on the map
and may also be "Green Acres" from Mary
Ware's Promised Land, Part
2, Chapter VIII.
It's location by description (on a hill behind the railroad station and across
from Oaklea) is correct 
Mary
Ware's Promised Land,
Part 2, Chapter VIII. (excerpt of Mary Ware's diary entry)
Green Acres is just across the road
from Oaklea. The grounds don't make
you think of a big, stately park as Oaklea does. It is more
countrified. But it is the dearest, most homelike, inviting old
place that one can imagine. I had been there several times with
Lloyd and Mrs. Sherman, and remembered it as a real picture-book
sort of house, with its low gables and quaint casement windows. I
remembered that it had a garden gay as Grandmother Ware's, with its
holly-hocks and prince's feathers, its marigolds and yellow roses;
and that
it had mint and sage and all sorts of spicy,
savory things in some of its borders. But I didn't know half of its
charms. Now, after two months, I am just beginning to discover the
extent of them.
"When a family has owned a place for
three generations, as the Wyckliffes did Green Acres, and have spent
their time making it livable and lovable, the result leaves little
more to be wished for. The hillside that slopes down from the back
of the house has a small orchard on part of it and a smaller
vineyard on the other, but both quite ample for our needs. Down at
the bottom a little brook trickles along from a cold spring, and
watercress and forget-me-nots grow along its edges. The apple trees
are in bloom now. This morning I spent a whole hour up in the gnarly
crotch of one of them doing nothing but enjoying to the fullest the
sweetness of their white and pink glory.
"When we came only the early
wildflowers were out, but all the knoll between the gate and the
house looked as if there had been a snowfall of anemones and spring
beauties. It isn't possible to put into black and white the joy of
that first home-coming. We walked up from the
station, and when we went
through the great gate and heard it click behind us, shutting us in
on our own grounds, we turned and
looked at each other and laughed like delighted
children. It was as if we had reached that land that we used to sing
about, where
"'Sweet
fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green.'
No wonder they named the place Green
Acres!
"We left the wide driveway that winds
around the hill to the house, and took the little path that leads
straight up to it under the trees. The footpath to peace, Phil calls
it.
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