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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM59A_the-walney-dairy_Chantilly-VA.html
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The Machen's chose this site to take advantage of the natural flow of the spring. Water was easily directed from the spring through the building and out the other side. As it passed through, the cold spring water preserved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM599_the-walney-dairy_Chantilly-VA.html
This stone building was the Machen family dairy from about the 1850s until the 1890s. Originally just one room, the dairy was a place to cool milk and to make butter and cheese. Before the Civil War, Caroline Machen made butter and cheese for her …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM595_walney-outbuildings_Chantilly-VA.html
Emmeline Machen (at Walney) to Arthur Machen, December 1853"As to the Ice-house I remind James of it daily and indeed almost every time I see him. ? Campbell promised to come today to commence digging it, but has failed to make his appearance. ?Fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM594_walney-outbuildings_Chantilly-VA.html
Caroline Machen (at Walney) to Lewis Machen, December 1849"You speak of making our pork into bacon before selling it. I do not think it would answer well in many accounts. Our smoke house is too small?"
James Machen (at Walney) to Lewis Machen,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58Y_the-cross-farmhouse_Chantilly-VA.html
The Alfred Judson Cross Farmhouse was built in 1905, replacing an earlier structure built by Cross's father and lost to fire earlier that year. The house was rebuilt on the same foundation using timber cut on the farm and sawn at a local mill. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58W_walney-outbuildings_Chantilly-VA.html
"They have a queer way of building one thing after another, the great point being to have a separate shed or out-house for every purpose?You will find a carpenter's shop, tool room, coach-shed, pig-house, stable, kitchen, two or three barns, and h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58V_walney-house_Chantilly-VA.html
Honoring Walney House whose history as a farm, dairy, & country retreat, reflects many facets of the development of western Fairfax County since the Eighteenth Century.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50P_a-place-on-the-high-ground_Centreville-VA.html
In the fall of 1861, after their July defeat at Manassas (Bull Run), Union forces retreated to Washington, D.C. to organize and retrain. Confederate forces concentrated in Centreville to bolster their defense of Northern Virginia and protect acces…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YL_little-hunting-creek_Fort-Hunt-VA.html
The Washington family land south of here, named Mount Vernon in the 1740s, was part of a grant made in 1677 by the Northern Neck proprietors to Col. Nicholas Spencer and Lt. Col. John Washington. George Washington's great-grandfather. John Washing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XT_page-county-shenandoah-county_Luray-VA.html
Page County. Area 322 square miles. Formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham, and named for John Page, Governor of Virginia, 1802-1805. Luray cave is here.
Shenandoah County. Area 510 square miles. Formed in 1772 from Frederick, and first …