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May 13, 2021 · CHAMPLAIN, VA – Jay Hundley and his family farm about 6,000 acres in eastern Virginia, in Essex, King George, Caroline and Richmond counties. They raise corn, soybeans, wheat, barley, oats and put up some orchardgrass hay.
Silver Run Forest Farm is a riparian nursery and folk school rooted in love and living soil in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. These roots grow out as agroforestry, watershed health, and restorative justice.
In 1768 or 1769, Lucy married Lieutenant William Lewis (her father’s first cousin) at Clover Fields and then moved about seventeen miles west, just off the Three-Notched Road to Lewis’ home at Locust Hill on Ivy Creek.
Feb 23, 2023 · Clover Fields is located at 4625 Cloverfields Farm, Keswick, VA 22947. References
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorNelson, Francis KinlochMeriwether, Margaret DouglasLay, K Edward, faculty sponsor- farmhouses- agriculture- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Keswick- 1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry- Significance: Cloverfields, one of the oldest farms located along the Southwest Mountain range, has been within the Meriwether family since 1730 when Nicholas Meriwether II received 18,000 acres...- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N732- Survey number: HABS VA-1358Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Cloverfields' Story Constructed 1703-1705 by Philemon Hemsley (1670-1719), a well-connected first-generation Marylander who amassed a fortune as a merchant and planter, and expanded by two successive generations of descendants, Cloverfields serves as a landmark in early American architecture.
- Significance: Built during the late eighteenth century, the Clover Hill farm, English bank barn is located within the Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District in eastern Albemarle County, Virginia.
