History of Poplar Grove Farm’s Century Forest
July 10, 2026
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Poplar Grove Farm seeks to become a Century Farm. Read about our legacy of lumber and preservation on the farm.
Poplar Grove Farm seeks to become a Century Farm. Read about our legacy of lumber and preservation on the farm.
As of 2024, the French Bradshaw Cemetery where our great, great, great, great, great grandmother is buried is incorrectly described in Loudon County records. Discover what we know about it.
In August 1908, 67-year old Reverend George Stuart Hayward Fitzhugh attempted to marry a 10-year old girl, Lulu Virginia Frazier. Shortly after receiving a marriage license to wed the child, George had a heart attack, and a frantic search to determine whether he’d married the child ensued. The press reported the series of events all over the United States…
When writing about the Quakers in Stafford county, be sure to get the locations correct. Stafford Quakers lived and met along Potomac RUN not Potomac Creek.
Sam Jones believed a treasure was buried on Poplar Grove Farm in the 1860s. Its location is still a mystery.
Stafford County commissioned a survey of slave-related locations within the county in 2015. It is referred to in the survey by the unfortunate, inaccurate moniker “Fitzhugh Family Slave Cemetery”. There are no slaves who belonged to the Fitzhugh family buried in the slave cemetery at Poplar Grove Farm, and no slaves named Fitzhugh are buried here either.
Who held slaves at Poplar Grove Farm? Where did slaves live at Poplar Grove Farm? What were the names of slaves who lived at Poplar Grove Farm?
Photographs and some interesting stories about slaves who lived on Poplar Grove farm: the Parkers, Henry Cooke, Sam Jones, and John Day.
Poplar Grove Farm has an interesting connection with Seven Lakes Subdivision in Stafford County.
Our slave cemetery was cleaned up in 2007. It has been mentioned several times in letters to the editor of the Free-Lance Star newspaper.
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