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Middletown -- Belle Grove Plantation

Former owner:: Hite, Isaac, Jr Search this; Hunnewell, F. W. (Francis Welles) Search this; Brumback family Search this

Restoration landscape architect:: Favretti, Rudy J. Search this

Owner:: National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States Search this

Creator:: Garden Club of Virginia Search this

Collection Creator:: Garden Club of America Search this

Type:: Archival materials

Place:: Belle Grove (Middletown, Virginia); United States of America -- Virginia -- Frederick County -- Middletown

Scope and Contents:: The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of articles about the property.

General:: Major Isaac Hite Jr., who fought with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and his first wife Eleanor (Nelly) Conway Madison, a sister of President James Madison, built the Federal style house beginning in 1794, using limestone quarried on the 483 acre property. The landscape plan included groves of trees for shade and was influenced by the less formal 18th century English gardens that complement rather than contrast with the natural setting. The fields would have been planted in grain for livestock, including cattle and Merino sheep. During Hite's lifetime the property was expanded to 7,500 acres and included a distillery and several mills. The house has a south façade of dressed limestone, and is in the pavilion style favored by Thomas Jefferson. There are several outbuildings. The only records of the garden show light foundation plantings around the house and a latticework fence.; During the Civil War, Belle Grove Plantation was the setting of the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, in which Union General Philip Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early.; The Brumback family owned the property from 1907 to 1929. Francis Welles Hunnewell purchased the property in 1929 and bequeathed it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1964.; In 1983, the Garden Club of Virginia voted to restore the gardens at Belle Grove Plantation, using funds raised in their annual garden walks. The gardens were restored to the style of circa 1820. University of Connecticut Professor Emeritus Rudy J. Favretti (Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects) designed the restoration. Restoration included pruning the trees to restore light to the house and open the view of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains and replacing the large foundation plantings including diseased boxwoods with low-growing plants. In addition, an overgrown herb garden was converted to a demonstration garden comprised of plants used in cooking, medicine and commerce in the 19th century, with restored latticework fencing on three sides and post and rail fencing on the fourth side.; Belle Grove Plantation, now 283 acres, is operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public. Sites on the grounds include the ice house, old hall, dairy, smokehouse, blacksmiths shop, demonstration garden, slave cemetery, and agricultural fields. There is also a library of local, architectural, crafts and agricultural history, and an artifacts collection.; Persons associated with the property include Major Isaac Hite (former owner, 1794-1836) and descendents of the Hite family, the Brumback family (former owner, 1907-1929), Francis Welles Hunnewell (former owner, 1929), Rudy J. Favretti (1983, restoration landscape architect) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation (owner, 1964-present)

Related Materials:: Belle Grove Plantation related holdings consist of 2 folders (1 3 x 4 in. lantern slide and 3 35mm slides); See also the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

See others in:: Hollerith Collection, ca. 1970?

Collection Restrictions:: Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:: Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens.

Topic:: Gardens -- Virginia -- Middletown Search this

Collection Citation:: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Identifier:: AAG.GCA, File VA094

See more items in:: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Virginia

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Gardens

EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18856

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Warsaw -- Sabine Hall

Former owner:: Carter, Robert Wormley, ca. 1735-1797 Search this; Wellford, Armistead Nelson Search this; Wellford, Dabney S. Rev Search this; Wellford, Hill B. Search this; Carter, Landon, 1710-1778 Search this; Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806 Search this; Carter, Winifred, ca.1740 Search this; Wellford, Robert, 1775-1844 Search this; Wellford, Ida Search this; Wellford, William Search this; Wellford, Katherine Davis Search this; Carter, Katherine Search this; Carter, Elizabeth Merrie Search this; Carter, Landon, II Search this

Collection Creator:: Garden Club of America Search this

Type:: Archival materials

Place:: Sabine Hall (Warsaw, Virginia); United States of America -- Virginia -- Richmond County -- Warsaw

Scope and Contents:: The folder includes worksheets and photocopies from publications.

General:: Sabine Hall is a plantation residence in the Georgian style built by Robert "King" Carter for his son Colonel Landon Carter, circa 1730, on a property of 4,000 acres, in an axial plan with formal parterre gardens. Sabine Hall was named for Horace's Roman villa and passed down through the Carter family for nine generations. The family kept the original geometric plan intact, although not all the beds were planted over time. Facing the Rappahannock River, and encompassing several hundred feet are six terraced beds with connecting grass ramps, with a centered gravel walk nearly six feet wide leading from the porch steps into the first terrace. Gravel walks continued to at least the second and third terraces. The first terrace, planted in grass, was called a bowling green. There were formal flower beds planted in a symmetrical English style on the second terrace. The third terrace was likely planted in small fruits and medicinal herbs, the fourth and fifth terraces planted in vegetables, and the sixth with fruit trees. There was another vegetable garden (the kitchen garden) planted with necessities that did not conform to the aesthetics of the parterres, planted beyond the boxwood hedges, out of sight from the house. The fifth and sixth terraces were not maintained into the 20th century, but the outlines remain. The borders were hedged in boxwood. The front portico of the house has leads to a planted lawn surrounded and interplanted with both native and imported tree species.; Colonel Landon Carter is presumed to have been responsible for the initial geometrical design of the garden, based on 17th century English and Continental precepts. Indentured English gardeners may have been early workers, as well as slaves passed down through family bequests. The third owner, Robert Wormeley Carter, named slave gardeners in his will of 1794.; Flowers mentioned by Landon Carter include bulbs, roses, and wildflowers. Vegetables included artichokes, French beans, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, endives, lettuce, melons, mushrooms, onions, parsley, peas, potatoes, radishes, savoys, spinach, and turnips.; Following ownership by Colonel Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his wife Elizabeth Wormeley of Rosegill, the estate passed to Robert Wormeley Carter and his wife Winifred Beale; then to their son Colonel Landon Carter II and his wife Katharine Tayloe of Mount Airy; next to Robert Wormeley Carter II and his wife Elizabeth Merrie Tayloe of Mount Airy. Ownership then skipped a generation and went to Robert Carter Wellford (a grandson) in 1861, who married Elizabeth Harrison of Berkeley. She died in 1919, leaving Sabine Hall to two sons, Armistead Nelson Wellford and his wife Katherine Davis and William Harrison Wellford and his wife Ida Beverly. The property was passed on to ensuing sons, the Reverend Dabney S. Wellford and Hill B. Wellford.; Persons associated with the garden include the Carter family (1730) and their descendents.

Related Materials:: Sabine Hall related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides (photographs))

Collection Restrictions:: Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:: Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens.

Topic:: Gardens -- Virginia -- Warsaw Search this; Plantations Search this; Gardens, English Search this; Vegetable gardening Search this; Parterres Search this; Terraces Search this

Collection Citation:: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Identifier:: AAG.GCA, File VA009

See more items in:: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Virginia

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Gardens

EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18924

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Abington Township -- Hidden Glen Farms

Former owner:: Conger, Fred Search this; Conger, Betty Search this

Landscape designer:: Gale, Charles H. Search this

Architect:: Brumbaugh, G. Edwin Search this; Milner, John Search this

Landscape architect:: Peck, Frederick W. G. Search this; Owen B. Schmidt & Sons Search this

Provenance:: Huntingdon Valley Garden Club Search this

Collection Creator:: Garden Club of America Search this

Type:: Archival materials

Place:: Hidden Glen Farms (Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania); United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Abington Township -- Meadowbrook

Scope and Contents:: The folder includes a worksheet, a copy of the garden plan, and three photos of the original Charles H. Gale installation from ca. 1983 (two of the same view). The garden is noted for its incorporation of colonial (eighteenth-century) design elements in a contemporary setting.

General:: "This garden was designed to enhance an eighteenth-century landscape and house setting. Landscape architect Charles H. Gale, Sr., was inspired by the architectural and horticultural research done at Colonial Williamsburg. He created a half acre of colonial gardens terraced to separate the formal flower and herb garden from the vegetable and fruit garden. The upper tier is in geometric subdivisions using English boxwood to edge and enclose spring bulbs, annuals, biennials, and perennials. Included are lilies, aquilegia, digitalis, delphinium, coreopsis, gallardia, phlox, astilbe, stokesia, Shasta daisies, yarrow, candytuft, alyssum, veronica, comfrey, and medicinal as well as cooking, and sweet-smelling herbs, the latter lining one side of the garden fence.; In each of the four geometric shapes is a five-foot, classical lead statue made in England. . . . The center circle has an eighteenth-century sundial. Fieldstone retaining walls, which contain the hill, and a sitting niche and bench with herbs underfoot utilize eighteenth-century ideas of garden construction. The vegetable and fruit garden, four stone steps down, is bordered on two sides by espaliered dwarf apple trees and grape vines. The small hill on the side of the steps is covered with lilies and strawberries. In one corner the fences join a garden tool house, which has a cedar shingled roof to match the family house and pool house roofs. Williamsburg clay birdhouses hang from one side of this house. The sheep pasture is adjacent to the garden. Fields and lower orchard go behind the garden. The tennis court,pool, woods and creek follow the lawns to the right."; Persons associated with the property include: Fred and Betty Conger (former owners, 1937-1963); Frederick W. G. Peck (landscape designer, 1967); Charles H.Gale (landscape architect, 1982); G. Edwin Brumbaugh (architect, 1937, 1966, 1969); Owen B. Schmidt & Sons (landscape architects, 1968); and John Milner (architect, 1981 and 1989).

Related Materials:: Hidden Glen Farms related holdings consist of 1 folder (24 35 mm. slides)

Collection Restrictions:: Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:: Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens.

Topic:: Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Meadowbrook Search this

Collection Citation:: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Identifier:: AAG.GCA, File PA348

See more items in:: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Pennsylvania

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Gardens

EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref16429

A Bibliography of Soviet Literature on Aviation, High Altitude and Space Biology and Medicine

Author:: Sergeyev, A. A. Search this

Translator:: Joint Publications Research Serivce (NTIS) Search this

Collection Creator:: Hardesty, Von, 1939- Search this

Extent:: 1 Document

Container:: Box 49, Folder 10

Type:: Archival materials; Text; Documents

Date:: June 10, 1971

Scope and Contents:: "A Bibliography of Soviet Literature on Aviation, Alpine and Space BIology and Medicine," JPRS translation 53329, June 10, 1971; transltion of A. A. Sergeyev, Otechestvennaya Literatura po Aviatsionnoy, Vysokogornoy i Kosmicheskoy Biologii i Meditsine, Bibliografiya (Leningrad: Nauka Publishing House, 1969). Extract (parachute section only; phtoocopy)/

Collection Restrictions:: No restrictions on access.

Collection Rights:: Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:: Russian Aeronautical Collection, ACC. 2006-0034, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

See more items in:: Russian Aeronautical Collection; Russian Aeronautical Collection / Series 6: Reference

Archival Repository:: National Air and Space Museum Archives

EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-nasm-2006-0034-ref1527

Port Murray -- Well-Sweep Herb Farm

Collection Creator:: Adams, Molly, 1918-2003 Search this

Type:: Archival materials

Place:: Well-Sweep Herb Farm (Port Murray, New Jersey); United States of America -- New Jersey -- Warren County -- Mansfield -- Port Murray

Scope and Contents:: The folders include worksheets, photocopies of an article about the garden, and related materials.

General:: Since 1970 Well-Sweep Herb Farm has been providing herbs, herbal products, and dried flowers to the public. Under continuous ownership by the Hyde family, it is one of the largest collections of herbs and perennials in the country, with over 1750 varieties. There are butterfly, herb, medicinal, perennial, and rock gardens, as well as topiary. The formal herb garden includes a knot garden and displays 39 basils, 81 lavenders, 56 rosemarys, 109 thymes, and 79 scented-leaf geranium varieties.

Related Materials:: Well-Sweep Herb Farm related holdings consist of 2 folders (12 35 mm. slides)

See others in:: Garden Club of America Collection, ca. 1920-[ongoing].

Collection Restrictions:: Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:: Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens.

Topic:: Gardens -- New Jersey -- Port Murray Search this

Collection Citation:: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.

Identifier:: AAG.ADM, File NJ199

See more items in:: Maida Babson Adams American garden collection; Maida Babson Adams American garden collection / Series 1: Garden Images / New Jersey

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Gardens

EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-aag-adm-ref898

Jon Breslar papers

Creator:: Cidey, Guy Search this; Breslar, Jon, 1949-2005 Search this

Extent:: 7.2 Linear feet (16 boxes, 21 cassette tapes, 12 audio reels, 1 map drawer )

Culture:: Mahorais Search this

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Field notes; Sound recordings; Botanical specimens; Slides (photographs); Photographic prints

Place:: Mayotte

Date:: 1870-1984; bulk 1971-1982

Summary:: These papers document Jon Breslar's fieldwork on Mayotte, Comoro Islands for his dissertation as well as his work developing a new housing policy for Mayotte. The collection contains his professional correspondence, field notes, research notes, his writings, writings by others, newspaper clippings, teaching materials for his Shimaore language course, photographs, maps, plant specimens, and sound recordings.

Scope and Content note:: These papers document Jon Breslar's fieldwork on Mayotte, Comoro Islands for his dissertation as well as his work developing a new housing policy for Mayotte. The collection contains his professional correspondence, notes, writings, research materials, photographs, maps, plant specimens, and sound recordings.

Among his correspondents in the collection are Georges and Genevieve Boulinier, Michael Lambek, Paul Ottino, and Alexander Spoehr. The collection also contains his correspondence relating to arrangements for his trip to Mayotte as well as his fieldwork progress reports sent to the Social Science Research Council, which funded his research.

A copy of Breslar's dissertation can be found in the collection along with his field notes; maps; sound recordings of ceremonies and interviews with informants; plant specimens used for medicine; photographic prints; and 35 mm slides. Materials relating to his work on the Mayotte housing project consist of his research notes, photographs, and the L'Habitat publications produced from the project.

Michael Lambek and Breslar both conducted fieldwork on Mayotte at around the same time and collaborated on two papers: "Death and Politics in Mayotte" (presented at the 1977 76th American Anthropological Association meeting) and "Funerals and Social Change in Mayotte" (1986). A draft of the first paper can be found filed with Lambek's correspondence while a copy of the second paper is under Series 4. Writings.

In addition to Breslar's writings, the collection contains monographs, articles, and theses on the Comoro Islands and Madagascar by other authors. Most of the writings are in French and English, but there are also photocopies and photographic prints of a manuscript in Arabic.

Other materials that may be of interest are Breslar's teaching materials for his course on Shimaore. While in Mayotte, Breslar became fluent in Shimaore and offered a course on the language.

Arrangement:: Arranged into 8 series: (1) Correspondence, 1971-1989 [Bulk 1971-1978]; (2) Research, 1975-1980; (3) Language, 1979-1982; (4) Writings, 1870-1984 [Bulk 1959-1984]; (5) Photographs, circa 1975-1982; (6) Maps, 1955-1956; (7) Botanical Specimens, circa 1975-1982; (8) Sound Recordings, 1976

Biographical Note:: Jon Haskell Breslar, a sociocultural and applied anthropologist, was born on June 22, 1949 in Ware, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in Anthropology and French in 1971 from Franklin & Marshall College and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1981.

As a doctoral student, Breslar originally planned to study ethnic identities and relationships in the Lac Alaotra region of Northeast Madgascar. His plans came to a halt, however, when officials from the Malagasy Embassy informed him that westerners were no longer allowed to conduct long term ethnological research in Madagascar. As a result, he decided to carry out his research in Mayotte, Comoro Islands. From 1975 to 1976, Breslar conducted fieldwork in the villages of Sada and M'Zouazia, which led to his dissertation, "An Ethnography of the Mahorais (Mayotte, Comoro Islands)." He still had not completed his dissertation when, upon the invitation of the French government, he returned to Mayotte for four months from November, 1977 to February, 1978 to develop a new housing policy for the Mahorais as a contractor for Société Immobilière de Mayotte. He returned to Mayotte again in September, 1978 to January, 1982, this time with his family, to continue work on the project. A pilot study was conducted and published in a three-volume set, one of which was Breslar's L'Habitat Mahorais: Une Perspective Ethnologique (1979-1982). The project resulted in the construction of more durable housing using low-cost materials.

In 1983, he joined the US Agency for International Development (USAID). During the course of his career at USAID, he was assigned to Nepal, Mali, and Lebanon (where he served as director). He rose to the diplomatic rank of Minister Counselor and was a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award and the Administrator's Award for Distinguished Career Service.

Breslar passed away at the age of 56, from lung cancer, on September 3, 2005.

Sources Consulted

Lambek, Michael. "Jon Haskell Breslar." Anthropology News 47.2 (2006): 35.

Chronology

1949 -- Born June 22 in Ware, Massachusetts

1971 -- Earns B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College in Anthropology and French

1975-1976 -- Conducts ethnological fieldwork in Mayotte, Comoro Islands.

1977-1978 -- Returns to Mayotte for four months to help develop new housing policy for the Mahorais as a contractor for Société Immobilière de Mayotte

1978-1982 -- Continues work on Mayotte housing project

1981 -- Earns Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh

1983 -- Joins USAID

1985-1989 -- Serves as USAID Rural Development Officer in Nepal

1989-1993 -- Serves as USAID Program Officer in Mali

1997 -- Visits Mayotte

2000-2002 -- Serves as Mission Director in Lebanon

2005 -- Dies on September 3 at the age of 56.

Selected Bibliography

1981 -- Ph.D. dissertation. "An Ethnography of the Mahorais (Mayotte, Comoro Islands)." University of Pittsburgh.

1979 -- L'Habitat Mahorais: Une Perspective Ethnologique. Paris: Editions A.G.G.

1986 -- with Michael Lambek. "Funerals and Social Change in Mayotte." Madagascar: Society and History. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Separated Materials:: Four 8mm film reels received with the papers of Jon Breslar have been transferred to the Human Studies Film Archives. The reels contain footage of a circumcision and other Mayotte rituals and ceremonies.

Provenance:: These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Jon Breslar's wife, Bonnie. A copy of Breslar's dissertation was obtained by his wife and added to the collection at a later date.

Restrictions:: No restrictions on access.

Rights:: Contact repository for terms of use.

Topic:: Housing Search this; Language and languages -- Documentation Search this; Applied anthropology Search this

Genre/Form:: Field notes; Sound recordings; Botanical specimens; Slides (photographs); Photographic prints

Citation:: Jon H. Breslar papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:: The Jon Breslar Papers were processed with the support of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Bonnie Breslar.

Funding for the digitization of portions of this collection was provided by the Arcadia Fund.

Identifier:: NAA.2007-04

See more items in:: Jon Breslar papers

Archival Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-naa-2007-04

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Middletown -- Belle Grove Plantation

Former owner:: Hite, Isaac, Jr Search this; Hunnewell, F. W. (Francis Welles) Search this; Brumback family Search this

Restoration landscape architect:: Favretti, Rudy J. Search this

Owner:: National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States Search this

Collection Creator:: Hollerith family Search this; Hollerith, Herman, 1860-1929 Search this; Garden Club of America Search this; Georgetown Garden Club Search this

Collection Photographer:: Hollerith, Lucia Beverly, 1891-1982 Search this; Hollerith, Nannie Talcott, 1898-1985 Search this; Hollerith, Virginia Search this

Type:: Archival materials

Place:: Belle Grove (Middletown, Virginia); United States of America -- Virginia -- Frederick County -- Middletown

Scope and Contents:: The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of articles about the property.

General:: Major Isaac Hite Jr., who fought with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and his first wife Eleanor (Nelly) Conway Madison, a sister of President James Madison, built the Federal style house beginning in 1794, using limestone quarried on the 483 acre property. The landscape plan included groves of trees for shade and was influenced by the less formal 18th century English gardens that complement rather than contrast with the natural setting. The fields would have been planted in grain for livestock, including cattle and Merino sheep. During Hite's lifetime the property was expanded to 7,500 acres and included a distillery and several mills. The house has a south façade of dressed limestone, and is in the pavilion style favored by Thomas Jefferson. There are several outbuildings. The only records of the garden show light foundation plantings around the house and a latticework fence.; During the Civil War, Belle Grove Plantation was the setting of the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, in which Union General Philip Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early.; The Brumback family owned the property from 1907 to 1929. Francis Welles Hunnewell purchased the property in 1929 and bequeathed it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1964.; In 1983, the Garden Club of Virginia voted to restore the gardens at Belle Grove Plantation, using funds raised in their annual garden walks. The gardens were restored to the style of circa 1820. University of Connecticut Professor Emeritus Rudy J. Favretti (Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects) designed the restoration. Restoration included pruning the trees to restore light to the house and open the view of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains and replacing the large foundation plantings including diseased boxwoods with low-growing plants. In addition, an overgrown herb garden was converted to a demonstration garden comprised of plants used in cooking, medicine and commerce in the 19th century, with restored latticework fencing on three sides and post and rail fencing on the fourth side.; Belle Grove Plantation, now 283 acres, is operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public. Sites on the grounds include the ice house, old hall, dairy, smokehouse, blacksmiths shop, demonstration garden, slave cemetery, and agricultural fields. There is also a library of local, architectural, crafts and agricultural history, and an artifacts collection.; Persons associated with the property include Major Isaac Hite (former owner, 1794-1836) and descendents of the Hite family, the Brumback family (former owner, 1907-1929), Francis Welles Hunnewell (former owner, 1929), Rudy J. Favretti (1983, restoration landscape architect) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation (owner, 1964-present),

Related Materials:: Belle Grove Plantation related holdings consist of 2 folders (1 3 x 4 in. lantern slide and 3 35mm slides); See also the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

See others in:: Garden Club of America Collection, ca. 1920-[ongoing].

Collection Restrictions:: Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:: Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens.