Nancy - There are still civil war trenches a ways behind what used to be
Varina High School and is now Varina Elementary school. Hoke-Brady Road is
now part of a national battlefield park and has many trenches that have been
preserved. I am sure there were other trenches that were destroyed due to
development. Where were the trenches you used to play in?
Barbara (from Varina)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunshine49" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Carter's Grove to be sold
>I live in Orange County Va, farms and woodlands are falling to
> developers here, too, it's part of the Northern Virginia sprawl, the
> housing boom, has nothing to do with taxes. The developers come in,
> offer outrageous sums (land on Rt. 29 outside Charlottesville for $1
> million an acre, land outside Culpeper went for $600,000 an acre- it
> will be a gated community and golf course), who can resist? With
> agribusiness it's harder and harder for anyone else to make a living
> at farming anymore. And developers have deep pockets.
>
> I used to play in Civil War trenches behind Varina HS when I was a
> kid- wonder if they are still there?
>
> Nancy
>
> -------
> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 4:54 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Has anyone driven down Route #5 in Varina recently? It is quite
>> appalling.
>> Several lovely old dairy farms, including Curles Neck Farm are
>> gone....to
>> developers.
>> Carter's Grove WILL BE some sort of a PUD or subdivision sooner or
>> later.
>> The death tax caused my own family's farm in Varina to be divvied
>> up and
>> sold a few years ago after the death of my grandfather. It's almost
>> amusing
>> how the very folks who are so supportive of things like the
>> euphemistically
>> named Estate Tax are also the ones who are so distraught when rural
>> land,
>> like family farms, is bought up by developers who are then doing what
>> estate tax advocates deem most evil: destroying wetlands and natural
>> habitats for wildlife, wreaking havoc with vast tracts of woodlands
>> thus
>> creating increased sprawl or, in John Denver's famous words "more
>> scars upon
>> the land".
>> All of this because of the supposedly egalitarian notion that the
>> death tax
>> is a well deserved tax for the super rich.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "W. Scott Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: Carter's Grove to be sold
>>
>>
>>> I am reserving my judgment until a buyer is announced...then, and
>>> only
>>> then,
>>> can we more accurately speculate how the sale with damage, or
>>> improve, the
>>> interpretation of Carter's Grove, Wolstenholme Towne, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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