The Beautiful Blue Skies above Lucy Selina Furnace

Lucy Selina Furnace 
Longdale, Virginia ~ Alleghany County
(about 15 miles from our house).

Lucy Selina Furnace

Lucy Selina Furnace L-5. This furnace was built in 1827 by Ironmasters John Jordan and John Irvine and was named for their wives. During the Civil War, iron produced here was used in the manufacture of Confederate Munitions.  

If you are interested in reading more about the furnace and its fascinating history, click on this link. It is beautifully done and is filled with fascinating history and wonderful period photographs.

"Firmstone Manor and Lucy Selina Furnace"

This post is linked with "Skywatch Fridays.”

Daily Photo ~ 4-21-11

Old One Room Schoolhouse

Turkey Hill Road ~ Rockbridge County, VA

This old schoolhouse is now owned by friends of ours who fixed it up and rent it out to families visiting their children who are attending Washington and Lee University. It was under water in the 1985 flood, but with lots of tender loving care was rebuilt and is a precious weekend rental property now.

"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.”

~Sam Houston

American statesman, politician, governor of Texas, and soldier ~ 

born March 2, 1793, on Timber Ridge in Rockbridge County, VA,

 and died July 26, 18863, in Huntsville, Texas.

Daily Photo ~ 4-7-11

Grainery at Maymont Mansion ~ Richmond, Virginia
(with a wee bit of a tilt on the part of the camera girl)


"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
  ~Maori Proverb


This post is linked to Harriet’s Shadow Shot Sunday.