The guns of our nation's trauma are forever silentCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:04 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ball's Bluff Battlefield. Today a peaceful scene. A scence of mayhem and death over 150 years ago.Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:16 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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White's Ferry connecting White's Ferry, Maryland and Leesburg, Virginia
White's Ferry is the only cable ferry service that carries cars, bicycles, and pedestrians across the Potomac River. Early settlers recognized that the relatively still waters of the Potomac River at the location would provide an ideal location for a ferry. The first known ferry operation at the location was Conrad's Ferry, pronounced contemporaneously by the locals as "Coonrod's Ferry" n 1817. After the Civil War, former Confederate officer Elijah V. White purchased it and made many improvements to the service. He named his ferry boat in honor of his former commander, General Jubal Anderson Early. Brown, whose father purchased the location in 1946 with other business partners. He eventually bought out his partners and shipped new ferries from Baltimore in 1953 and from Norfolk in 1988; both of which were named after Confederate General Jubal A. Early because of his "rebellious, no surrender attitude".
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:38 PM•Views: 13
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White's FerryCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:38 PM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Oatlands-A National Trust Historic Site
Oatlands was formed in 1798 from 3,408 acres of prime Loudoun County, Virginia, farmland by a young bachelor named George Carter, descendant of one of Virginia’s first families. Basing his plantation economy on wheat production, Carter eventually branched out to grow other small grains; raise sheep for their wool; develop a vineyard; and build a mill complex on nearby Goose Creek for the grinding of grain, milling of timber, and pressing of flax seed to produce oil cake. In 1801 he began calling his plantation “Oatlands.”
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:07 PM•Views: 12
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Oatlands-Slave QuartersCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:11 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Oatlands Mansion
Carter’s growing wealth was based on the labor of enslaved African Americans. When he took over the property, George Carter owned 17 slaves; in the 1840s the number had grown to 85. Just prior to the Civil War Oatlands housed the largest slave population in Loudoun County, numbering 128 people. Unfortunately, little documentary evidence remains about the personal lives of these workers or the slave culture at Oatlands.
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:08 PM•Views: 11
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Georgia at Oatlands
When George Carter died, his widow, Elizabeth Grayson Carter, remained at Oatlands with their two sons and managed the property through the Civil War years.The Carter family’s fortunes declined following the Civil War. Beset with debt and unable to recover from the loss of their slave labor, George Carter Jr. and his wife, Katherine Powell Carter, operated Oatlands first as a girls’ school and later as a summer boarding house. In 1897 the Carters sold the mansion with 60 acres to Stilson Hutchins, founder of the Washington Post newspaper. Hutchins never lived on the property, selling it in 1903 to affluent Washingtonians William and Edith Eustis.
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:09 PM•Views: 11
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Oatlands
William Eustis, an avid equestrian, found the location ideally suited for fox hunting; Edith, enchanted by the neglected gardens, was determined to return them to their former splendor.When Mrs. Eustis passed away in 1964, her two daughters, Margaret Eustis Finley and Anne Eustis Emmett, donated the Oatlands mansion, its furnishings, and 261 acres around it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:09 PM•Views: 11
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Tom at OatlandsCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:10 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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A hybrid brick and stone wall at Oatlands.Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:10 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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The big house at OatlandsCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:11 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Silver trees, OatlandsCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:12 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Oatlands-Carriage HouseCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 01:14 PM•Views: 11No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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