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The main portion of Sugar Loaf Farm was owned by John Summers as early as 1773. By 1830, John Summers's son, David, had built the three original buildings—the farmhouse, the grist mill and the miller's house. After David Summer's death in 1857, the farm was purchased by Jacob Bowman and remained in the Bowman family until the twentieth century.
White-owned farms in the Shenandoah Valley typically owned none, one, or a few enslaved people. Some large plantations, whose owners held many enslaved people, also existed in the Shenandoah Valley. According to the National Park Service , the culture of the Shenandoah Valley was "part of a system of race-based slavery" and white residents of ...
In "A History of Shenandoah County", written by Shenandoah Valley historian John W. Wayland, these contributions are cited and Wayland gives his interpretation of Bancrofts' writings, stating that mills of Shenandoah County provided some of this flour. It is family tradition that the Zirkle Mill was one of the sources for this flour.
Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
The Beahm community included homesteads, farms, cemeteries, a mill, and an outpost in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley. [4] [5] [6] The community was serviced by the Washington, Cincinnati, and Saint Louis Railroad. [7] The community was named for the Beahm family who were prominent farmers and landowners in Page County. [8] [9]
Jost Hite – grandfather of Major Isaac Hite, Jr – was a German immigrant to the Shenandoah Valley. In 1732, Jost and his partner Robert McKay, along with 16 other families, journeyed via the Valley Pike into the northern Valley to settle on 140,000 acres (570 km 2 ) acquired through two land grants.
In 2021, it was rated the best museum in the Shenandoah Valley by Virginia Living [5] and by the Daily News-Record. [ 6 ] The house later known as the Worcestershire House was a very old house in Hartlebury , England, dismantled and re-assembled at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, in 1992.
The farm is near Steele's Tavern and Raphine, close to the northern border of Rockbridge and Augusta counties in the U.S. state of Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech. The museum has free admission and covers 5 acres (2.0 ha) of the initial 532-acre (215.3 ha) farm.