Fort AP Hill offering walking tours of The Trap this Saturday

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(06-12-2016 08:51 AM)davg2000 Wrote:  "Wealthy in Heart" is terrific! Somewhere around the 9-minute mark on the film, there is a brief viewing of a photo captioned "the old Garrett home" (or something similar). Is this a photo of the Richard Garrett home?

One speaker in the film said that his father was given $5 per acre for his land. (That's a little over $76 in today's money.) No arguments.

There is also a brief viewing of the Smithers' Store, referred to in Dave Taylor's latest Boothie Barn.

I believe the house shown on the video is yet another Garrett family home. Mr. Hall was led to believe that the old graveyard was near an earlier house for one of the Garretts.

Many moons ago, I posted here about what it was like (as an eight-year-old) to hear a government agent announce to your mother and grandmother (Dad was in Korea) that our ancestral home would be bulldozed down in order to make way for a dual-lane highway. Prim and proper Victorian grandmothers are not supposed to give out war hoops!

Mom drove back and forth to Baltimore every day for two weeks (50 miles one way) to fight the government and won - to a degree. They moved the big old house instead of bulldozing it.