Early in the year of 1861, Adelaide Nelson was required to contact her insurance agent over the matter a fire which had consumed Long Branch’s greenhouse while Hugh Nelson, her husband, was off at war. Little did she know that her involvement with this “man’s work” would only be the first in a line of […]
Long Branch Plantation was lucky to have escaped much of the physical damage of the war. Apart from an individual account that a field was burned, the evidence shows that the estate remained unscathed. Most homesteads weren’t so fortunate. Many estates in the Shenandoah Valley were looted by both Union and Confederate soldiers for food […]
With so many men enlisting in the armed forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor, American manufacturers turned to women to fill gaps left in the workforce. Women became factory workers and assisted in the production of arms, airplanes, and tanks, among other things. In addition to factory jobs during the war, some women […]
One of the various conundrums staff has run up against during the refurnishing process has been dealin g with the matter of lighting. What seems like a simple issue – illuminating the interior (and in certain cases the exterior) of the home during darker hours – has proven challenging. Shedding a Little Light on the […]