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Payne’s Farm
Civil War Battlefield
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271 Years
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◆ Horsing around with
the winners of the Hunter
Horse Show...page 13
B
eth Brown and her son, Jonah,
check out historic markers explaining the
Mine Run Campaign just across the road
from the Payne’s Farm trailhead.
Photo by Tammy Purcell
Cover designed by Marilyn Ellinger.
COMMUNITY
Downtown Alliance
gets Main Street
Accreditation
Orange County Cruisers upcoming
vehicle show
See Community Page 6
✦ August 5–September 8, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 5 p.m.-9
p.m. 10609 James Madison Highway
the Buger King, Route 15, Orange.
The Orange County Cruisers hold
Cruise ins from April to October. This
is a family oriented event for people
who want to show their cars, trucks
or motocycles, or for those who just
want to view the autos and have a
Photo courtesy
good time.
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The Orange Downtown Alliance has been
designated as an accredited National Main
Street Program for meeting the commercial
district revitalization performance standards set
by the National Trust Main Street Center.
Each year, the National Trust and its partners announce the list of accredited Main
Street programs that have built strong revitalization organizations.
“We congratulate the Orange Downtown
Alliance for meeting our established performance standards,” said Doug
Loescher, director of the National Trust Main Street Center. “Accredited Main
Street programs are meeting the challenges of the recession head on and are
successfully using a focused, comprehensive revitalization strategy to keep their
communities vibrant and sustainable.”
The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development evaluates the alliance's efforts every year, working in partnership with the National
Trust Main Street Center to identify the local programs that meet 10 performance standards.
The standards include developing a mission, fostering strong public-private
partnerships, securing an operating budget, tracking economic progress, and
preserving historic buildings.
The Orange Downtown Alliance is a nonprofit association established to
enhance the economic environment of the town of Orange.
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COVER STORY
“A Hidden Gem”
Payne’s Farm, a well-preserved Civil War battlefield, offers visitors authenticity
BY TAMMY PURCELL
CORRESPONDENT
The 1.5-mile Payne’s Farm trail is dotted with interpretive markers
that tell the story of the November 1863 battle.
Photo by Tammy Purcell
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C
entral Virginia’s Civil War sites draw
thousands of tourists each year with
Orange and Spotsylvania Counties’
Wilderness Battlefield high on the list
of attractions.
But folks yearning to march through forest
and peer from ridges, as Union and
Confederate soldiers did 150 years ago, may
want to veer off the beaten path and visit
Payne’s Farm southwest of Locust Grove.
Part of the often-overlooked Mine Run Campaign, Payne’s
Farm -- now featuring a walking trail and interpretive markers
-- opened to the public in May, thanks largely to the efforts of
the Civil War Trust. The organization, along with the Piedmont
Environmental Council, purchased the property in 2003.
The 685-acre tract, tucked in the rural rolling hills about five
miles from the Wilderness, was the site of fierce fighting in
November, 1863 as a band of Yankee soldiers met Rebel
forces marching along the Orange Turnpike and tangled into
the night.
The battlefield, dotted with woods and fields, hasn’t
changed much since the fight, making it one of the country’s
most authentic Civil War sites.
“At Payne’s Farm, we’re lucky to have nearly the entire battlefield protected. But before this trail and signage were
installed, few people had the opportunity to fully explore this
site,” Civil War Trust president Jim Lighthizer said in a statement. “We are thrilled that locals and tourists alike are already
taking advantage of this tremendous resource.”
The one and a half mile trail winds through woods and over
ridges just off Zoar Road. Volunteers created the path during
the Trust’s annual Park Day in April, The 11 markers that dot
it were installed in corporation with the Civil War Trails program, which has erected over 1,000 interpretive signs in four
states.
“Our annual Park Day brings volunteers to over a hundred
Civil War sites around the country to clean them up and prepare
them for the tourist season. This year at Payne’s Farm, we had
quite a few volunteers come out and build the trail. It was a real
benefit and generated a lot of excitement,” Trust
Communications Director Jim Campi said, adding that Orange
County residents, including members of the Friends of the
Wilderness Battlefield, pitched in.
Thanks to those efforts, visitors can immerse themselves in a
landscape barely touched by development. While walking
through the thick woods and gazing across the quiet fields, it’s
easy to imagine what it was like on November 27, 1863 when
Union and Confederate troops slogged through mud and brush
during battle.
“The best way to understand the action that occurred on a
Civil War battlefield is to walk the land,” Lighthizer said. “Only
then does the reality of what you’ve read or seen recreated in
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another media come home to you. Interpretation and the visitation it encourages are the ultimate goals of battlefield preservation -- putting boots on the
ground to appreciate and learn from these hallowed grounds.”
The interpretive markers, strategically placed along the path, bring the battle
to life and place it in historical context. Signs chart the movement of troops,
delve into the minds of commanders and soldiers, and feature maps and photographs. Together, they weave a narrative of the Payne’s Farm conflict and the
brief Mine Run Campaign.
The campaign began on November 26, 1863 when the Army of the
Potomac, under the command of Union General George G. Meade, slipped
south of the Rapidan River, their eyes fixed on Confederate General Robert E.
Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia,
Meade had hoped to launch the campaign, aimed at attacking Lee’s lightly
guarded right flank two days earlier, but heavy rains stalled the advance. In the
meantime, an army scout spied the Yankees, informing Lee they were on the
move.
After they crossed the Rapidan at daybreak, Meade’s men marched down the
Orange Turnpike, hoping by sunset to reach Robertson’s Tavern. But the
muddy road slowed the Federals’ progress and Lee, armed with knowledge of
Meade’s advance, ordered his troops to march east.
On the morning of November 27th, the armies lurched toward confrontation. Skirmishes began around 11 a.m. not far from the tavern and lasted
throughout the day with both sides awaiting reinforcements.
To the north, Major General William French’s Union Third Corps plodded
along Jacob’s Ford toward the tavern, reaching a crossroads at Widow Morris
Farm. As the Yankee officer pondered his path, Confederate Major General
Edward Johnson marched his 5,300 men down Raccoon’s Ford Road in an
effort to join Major General Robert E. Rodes’ troops.
Around 4 p.m., French’s and Johnson’s men met at Payne’s Farm, battling
for hours in its forests and fields. Unbeknownst to Johnson, who attacked
aggressively, he had collided with an entire Union corps with many more men
close at hand.
Both sides charged and countercharged into the evening in the heaviest fighting of the Mine Run campaign. The Confederates managed to hold off Union
attacks, protecting Rodes’ left flank positioned at the tavern. With the farm
shrouded in darkness, the Rebels reached high ground west of Mine Run.
Poor weather stalled the action as Meade contemplated his strategy. On
November 29th, he again tried to attack Lee’s right flank but Major General
Gouvernor K. Warren failed to get his men in place until late in the day. Union
soldiers settled in for a cold night in the Orange County wilderness.
Lee was again informed about Yankee maneuvers and ordered Lieutenant
General A.P. Hill’s forces south. On the morning of November 30th, Meade
learned that Hill’s men were entrenched nearby and suspended his offensive.
By early December, Meade had again crossed the Rapidan-this time to its
northern bank. Union and Confederate soldiers hunkered down for a long winter, awaiting the bloody battles to come the next spring.
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Partnering with the University of Virginia
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The gates open at
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The event is outdoors so please dress for the weather
and critters! Donation: Anniversary gift of 3 (or more) cans
of cat/dog food per person. For more information
Phone:540/854-0870 or Website:www.rikkisrefuge.org
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Battlefield
While Payne’s Farm is overshadowed in the history books and tourist
brochures by other Central Virginia battles, Campi hopes Civil War enthusiasts
will visit the carefully preserved site and learn the story of a fight that cost hundreds of soldiers their lives and set the stage for the Battle of the Wilderness the
following May.
The Trust is doing its part to market the battlefield, which is already part of
a Mine Run Campaign Driving Tour designed in partnership with the National
Park Service. The group hopes to add additional signage in the coming years
and is planning an event to commemorate the clash’s upcoming sesquicenten-
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there.”
To visit Payne’s Farm, park at Zoar Baptist Church, located at 31334 Zoar
Road just a few miles off Route 20. Cross the highway to the one and a half
mile loop trail.
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August 13: Bull Riding Rodeo. Oakland Heights Farm. (540)
832-3350 www.blm-bull-co.com Five of these events have $2,500
Added Money. These are the five shows on the farm in Gordonsville;
we expect 30 or more riders for each event. That makes nearly
$5,000 in prize money and that means a great show for all.
“The farm” is where, for over 20 years Sally & David Lamb have
held horse show events and operated their horse business. It is
Oakland Heights Farm just outside Gordonsville, Virginia.
August 14: 13th Anniversary Party. Rikki's Refuge. 12-4 (540)
854-0870 www.rikkisrefuge.org
August 19-21: Summer Civil War Weekend. Montpelier. (540)
672-2728 www.montpelier.org Visit Montpelier for a weekend of
skirmishes, dress parades, and Civil War history, where General
Samuel McGowan's South Carolinians encamped during the winter of
1863-1864. See a reenactment of a Civil War-era court martial on the
mansion grounds and watch reenactors use Civil War-era tools and
techniques to rebuild the huts once occupied by McGowan's troops.
Also, tour the Gilmore Farm, home of George Gilmore, born a slave
at Montpelier and emancipated after the Civil War. (540) 672-2728.
August 20 (Sat.): Rebuilding Montpelier's Civil War Huts. See
reenactors rebuild the huts occupied by General Samuel McGowan's
South Carolinians during the winter of 1863-1864. The reenactors
will use the same construction techniques as McGowan's men.10:00
a.m.—4:00 p.m. Located on Route 20 across from the Montpelier
Train Depot, 4 miles south of Orange, Virginia. (540) 672-2728.
August 21 (Sun.): Freedman's Farm Tour, and Confederate
Winter Camp Site Walking Tour. Tour the Gilmore Farm, home of
George Gilmore, born a slave at Montpelier, followed by a walking
tour of the 1863-1864 Confederate winter encampment site. 2:00
p.m. (540) 672-2728.
August 20: Orange County Cruisers. 10609 James Madison
Highway (Burger King) 5-9 (434) 973-8677 www.orangecountycruisers.net
August 20: Big Daddy's BBQ. Waugh Harley-Davidson. 9-5 (540)
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August 21: Freedman's Farm and Confederate Camp Site
Walking Tour. Gilmore Cabin at Montpelier. 2:00 (540) 672-2728
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If you live in bear country and you keep bird
feeders up all summer, you can expect visitors. I
live near the Blue Ridge Mountains and American
Black Bears occasionally visit my yard from June
through August to forage for birdseed that has
dropped from my feeders. They need to settle for
seed on the ground because my feeder pole is
about nine and a half feet tall. That height keeps
the feeders out of reach of the bears, and although
they try to climb the pole, a baffle quickly stops
them!
It is illegal in Virginia to deliberately attract bears
to your property by putting out food for them. In
my situation, these bruins are simply cleaning up
abandoned food that needs to be fed upon by some
animal rather than sitting there to eventually rot.
Because birds and other kinds of critters do feed on
seed that has fallen, there is never enough left on
the ground to keep a big bear around for very long.
Bears eat many kinds of food. I’ve watched a
bear eat my Touch-me-not plants as well as the
fruits on my Autumn Olive shrubs. They also feed
on insects, small mammals, and carrion. Thus
even if I had no feeders out, a bear could be expected to wander through looking for any of the aforementioned items.
If your bird feeders are vulnerable to destruction
by bears, you should consider not putting them out
except when these animals are denning, from midto-late fall through winter. Black bears are often
said to hibernate but they do not exhibit the main
characteristic of true hibernation – a drop in body
temperature to within one degree of the surroundAn American Black Bear shakes
ing temperature.
a feeder pole at the edge of the
Their metabolism does drop substantially, their author’s driveway in Crozet. This
heart rate decreases from 40 to 50 beats per bear-resistant pole has kept feedminute to 8 to 19 beats per minute, and their res- ers out of reach of many a bear paw
piration (breathing) is slowed down to 2 to 4 times for more than a decade. Photos by
Marlene A. Condon
a minute, but true hibernation requires an even
greater reduction in these functions. As a result, black bears often remain inactive only
during the coldest months, whereas a true hibernator will be in a deep sleep most or all
of the winter.
A bear does not want to interact with humans so it will not usually come into a yard
with people outside. I’ve lived in my home for 25 years and have only seen bears
when I’m inside.
Naturalist Marlene A. Condon is the author/photographer of The Nature-friendly Garden: Creating a Backyard Haven for Plants, Wildlife, and People (Stackpole
Books). If you’re curious about plants or animals, or if you are wondering how to garden in a nature-friendly manner, send a question to AskTheNatureLady@aol.com and
watch for an answer in this paper.
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H
e looked north and said he was told the
Washington Monument could be seen on a
clear day although he has never been able
to pick it out. Then he turned west and said
that when the leaves are off the trees he
can see the traffic light at Ruckersville, maybe twenty miles
away, as the crow flies.
“I do kinda like it out here,” smiled John Faulconer,
standing in front of the house where he spent growing up
years. It’s an attractive, compact structure that contains
a three-layered enlarged two-story log cabin enclosed by
brick, all of it tucked inside a shell of aluminum siding. “For
insulation,” he added.
The outstanding view from Highland seems it would
have made an outstanding lookout point during the Civil
War but Faulconer said he never has found documentation
for that. What he does know is that when the cabin was
being used as a school after the war, an outbuilding contained canon balls and live shells the teacher had the older
boys remove and bury.
The original property, consisting of 6,500 acres, was
patented to Colonel John Baylor in 1726.
It comes down from both Faulconer’s family and that of
his wife, Dana, through an ancestor of hers, Thomas G.
Macon, kin to James Madison’s mother, who owned it in
1816. He conveyed it to Conway C. Macon who was an
Orange County Sheriff. It then was purchased by William
Bankhead who built the log cabin in 1852. The property went to his son in 1859. It was called Edgemont in
1880, and 350 acres were divided off for a site where the
senior Bankhead then built Walnut Hill that later was sold
to General, then Governor, James Kemper, who is buried
there.
The farm was owned by C. Cameron Kress, a World
War I navy physician, in 1947. He added a garage and furnace room to the original cabin that now has ten rooms,
paneled the interior rooms and bricked over the logs. The
John Faulconer shows off a bottle of Elijah Craig Bourbon
whiskey. Photo by Pat Laland.
Faulconers purchased it from Kress in 1949.
The interior of the cozy structure shows Faulconer’s
passion for collecting and caring for items from the past,
with books, prints and memorabilia displayed. The wormy
chestnut paneling that covers the original chestnut logs
was rescued from an old barn by former owner Kress, who
also embellished the fireplace mantel in the living room
and the newel post and rail on the staircase with carved
hardwood pieces. The family believes these pieces came
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from a yacht owned by the Gould
family that was used as a hospital
ship during WWI.
Faulconer fondly remembers his
school years, spent at both Orange
High School and Woodberry Forest,
and the parties he and his friends
enjoyed.
“There was one and usually two
parties every weekend,” he said, “at
one house or another.” Couples
danced in the dining room to a record
player, the boys in coat and tie, with
a fire in the living room fireplace in
the winter and plenty of refreshments.
“Mother cooked bacon and eggs
before everybody went home, usually
around midnight .” It’s easy to imagine that an ear placed to the wall still
could echo sounds of rock and roll
tunes caught in cobwebs between the
logs.
Faulconer
graduated
from
Randolph Macon with a degree in
sociology, then returned to Orange
to join the family hardware business,
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Dining Room at Highland where the teenagers danced. Photo by Pat Laland.
Jr., went west with other family members, including preacher Elijah Craig, to
settle in Kentucky where Craig is credited with inventing bourbon whiskey. In
case someone is apt to scoff, Faulconer can produce a bottle of bourbon with
Elijah’s name branded on the label, and the legend as well.
The story is that the product was a happy accident since Craig was making
corn whiskey in the barn when it caught fire and with no money to buy new
barrels for aging the brew, he used those that survived the fire. The charred flavor they imparted to it made Bourbon County whiskey famous.
When John Faulconer, the tenth generation of Faulconers in Virginia ,
enjoys the perspective from his front yard at Highland, he sees countryside his
family has known for a long time. There have been Faulconers in Virginia for
392 years and in Orange County for 271 years. That is very long view.
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started by his father in 1935.
“He sold John Deere Tractors,” Faulconer said, “In the 1940s he sold the
first rubber-tired John Deere tractor seen in Orange , a new idea in farm
machinery, to Rowland Hill’s father. Dad took delivery at the train station and
drove it up Main Street, down Caroline Street to Jiggs Craun’s service station
next door to the present historical society, to fill it with gas. A crowd gathered
around to see this new innovation, laughing and saying that rubber tires on a
tractor was the dumbest thing they had ever seen. I think it’s possible that tractor still survives at Berry Hill.”
The first member of the Faulconer family to come to Virginia was Thomas,
who arrived in 1619 from England . He helped build St. Luke’s Church, the
oldest surviving church in Virginia , in 1632 and officiated there from 1632 to
1643.
The first member of the family to come to Orange County was another John
Faulconer who settled below Mine Run in 1740. He married Joyce Craig,
whose brother, Elijah, in 1766, was the first minister of Blue Run Baptist
Church in Somerset, where a road bears his name.
In 1779 the Faulconer family of ten children, all of whom, except for John,
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ake of the Woods held its Independence Day celebration Saturday, July 2nd with a daylong schedule of events
including a parade, flag raising ceremony, carnival, water ski show, and fireworks display. Parade award winners included: Orange Truck 23 – Best Appearing Fire Apparatus; Richardsville EMS – Best Appearing
Emergency Medical Services Apparatus; LOW Water Ski Club “Honor Our Vets” - Best Float; LOW Players
“Oklahoma” – Best Marching Unit; Harold Hopkins, 1956 Ford Sunliner – Best U.S. Car; Bill Halpin, Austin Healey
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The Knights of Columbus Honor America Corps proudly display their flags in the
Lake of the Woods parade.
Classic cars like Jim Schroff’s
1965 Cobra 427 S/C are always
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Jacob Borukhin, 8, rappels down
the rock climbing wall at the Lake of
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Lake of the Woods
Hunter Horse Show
he Lake of the Woods Equestrian Center held the fourth
horse show in its 2011 series of hunter shows Sunday July
10. Points earned in the series also countThe Lake of the
Woods Equestrian Center held the fourth horse show in its
2011 series of hunter shows Sunday July 10. Points earned in the
series also count toward Virginia Horse Show Association and
Battlefield Horse Show Association standings. The hot July weather may have had a dampening effect on show participation this year,
Series Show Manager Mary Tinsley estimated. “It was not the
biggest turnout we’ve had. It’s hot, people are on vacation, or they
can’t afford the gas prices, so they are not showing as much.” Still,
for the entire series, she said, “We will probably come in close to
budget.” The remaining shows in the series will be held on August
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Sydney Murray and Southern Exposure clear
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Caroline Patton and Midnight Hour start
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Central Virginia Gardening
BY SUNNY LENZ
The serendipity of ditch weeds
rom mustard to aster, Virginia roadsides are
decorated through the growing season by
fabulous ditch weeds. As a gardener, I
organize nature for the eye's delight, planning for
repeated showy displays down the perennial border,
placing bright color near and far to enclose space or stretch the view. But it
is hard to beat the beauty provided by the side of the road on a summer day.
In March, Virginia bluebells can be seen near a stream while daffodils and star
flowers, planted by some early settler have gone wild and line the roadsides.
When May apples appear, it is time to search for morels and the season has
started. Dandelions and clover start the bees moving and by May, Scotch
broom pops out, giving us a bright border and an indication of the waves of
color to follow. As summer gets started in full force, chicory, yucca, daylilies
and Queen Anne's lace let us know that it is hard to produce a better garden
display than the one offered by nature on a summer day.
All over the country, ditch weeds are startling. In New England, loosestrife
has invaded every ditch and though I know it is hard to remove and is replacing more subtle growth, the purple beacons are glorious none the less. In the
deep South, trumpet vine and bull thisle blaze away while west of the
Mississippi, bouncing bette lines the roads and sunflowers move their heads to
follow the sun. Lupines, columbine and pinks adorn the mountain states and
Indian paint brush brightens the days in the Northwest. Everything under the
sun blooms in California. World wide, ditches are full of flowers. In Ireland
fuscia drip over the byways and montbretia lines the roadside. In Italy scarlet
poppies and wild tulips are so common, people sail by smiling at the booming
colors. Asia has calla lilies and rafflesia. Australia has cow kicks, cockies
tongue and Queen of Sheba orchids!
But you needn't travel at all to see a bright, changing display as here in
Virginia we have beautiful flowers all season
long just sitting at the side of the road. In
June, Jimson weed, named after its discovery
in Jamestown, climbs high. By July, blackeyed Susans are blooming and in August the
full heat of summer brings out golden rod and
iron weed with its 19,000 seeds/flower.
Some plants are toxic, some used medicinally, and some are historic. Poke berry ink
was used to write the Declaration of
Independence and Civil War soldiers used it
to write letters home. Yarrow, coreopsis,
Oxeye daisy, white heath aster, Virginia pepperweed, hairy bittercress; these and other
Growing along the roadside.
American natives led to a great spurt of plant Chicory is from the Old World,
collecting in the 1700's. Many of today's and its names, Latin and
perennials were bred from these lowly begin- English, derive ultimately from
Arabic. It is closely related to
nings.
endive. Other names include
Asters give us the first hint of fall and wild endive, blue sailors, blue
bloom until first frost. Bittersweet carries on daisy, coffeeweed, bunk, and
all the way to December. None of this is succory.
organized or arranged, none purchased or
mulched. We garden to bring a little order into our surroundings but the
serendipity of nature in the roadside ditch outshines us all.
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