Summer Camping Trips 1850s homestead in the valley

This recently built home represents accurately how the settlers in pre-Civil War Virginia lived and farmed. Having just seen the story of Charlie Anderson in "Shenandoah", it was awe inspiring to think of the folks back then who farmed the valley to feed the troops and then left to fight for their state (not their country). Well worth the visit.

Summer Camping Trips

August 30th 2009
There are some who might think we haven’t done any camping this summer or gone anywhere. Well, with high gas prices last year, that was true. But we have gotten out this year and gone places. Most were weekend trips with the Good Sam group, though we have gone elsewhere. We were supposed to be camping this weekend, but our surrogate granddaughter couldn’t get away to go camping and to the ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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