Day in a Life
in Loudoun County Virginia
 

George Wenner: Founding Farmer

Wenner Exhibit
 

Apple is used through the whole year, and when fresh apples are no longer to be had, dried ones are used. It is the evening meal of children. House pie in country places, is made of apples neither peeled nor freed from their cores, and its crust is not broken if a wagon wheel goes over it.

Dr. Acrelius, 1758
 

History
England, France and Spain are Colonial Powers and rivals in the New World 1722 Governor Spotswood concludes The Treaty of Albany with the Iroquois which opens the piedmont area of Virginia to settlement.
 

Economy 1730
(18th) Small family farms predominated, except for plantations in Southern coastal areas; housing ranged from crude log cabins to substantial frame, brick, or stone houses; farm families manufactured many necessities.

Virginia
Virginia Population: 65,000-100,000

Loudoun
1730 Population: 220
Agriculture consisted of some tobacco and grain crops

Science
New U.S. crops from Europe included clover, alfalfa, timothy,small grains, and fruits and vegetables.


 

George Wenner | Silvey Mason | John Binns
Philip Nelson | Catherine Manning | George Bodmer
Westmoreland Davis | R. N. Legard
Elevation | Nichols



 



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