The 1946 "Boothies"' trip

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(04-18-2015 10:05 AM)DKEast Wrote:  Thanks RJ quite interesting article. Would love to see the other one from 1945 but I guess my letter requesting such would be returned undeliverable!! Interesting to note, it appears the group didn't stop at the Peyton House in Port Royal, nor apparently visited the Garrett farmstead as that would have been included? I wonder by that omission if the farmhouse had collapsed by 1946 (the WPA photo of it from 1937 shows it probably had less than a decade left!) and that they didn't stop as there was nothing to see but you would have thought they would have visited the grounds?

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Continuing, wonder if the 1945 group stopped at Garrett farmstead and recorded their encounter?

As we have been told, the Garrett farmhouse fell in on itself shortly after that 1937 photo. The remains were carted away by the U.S. government when Ft. A.P. Hill Military Reservation was established (in most of Caroline County, it seems) at the beginning of WWII.

Back in the 1960s and 70s, Mr. Hall tried in vain to get permission to locate an old Garrett burial plot that is supposedly on the Reservation. The Army refused because of the possibility of live ammunition in fields there due to artillery practices.