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Hes TORIC GARDENS’: OF VIRGINIA
Er — szi Ta ati e
ladies of the household, looking on at the animated scene. These
were familiar sights at Tedington during the old-time harvests.
Today all of this is changed. Almost every one of the former
slaves have passed into the great beyond, and Tedington has been
divided up to consist of five farms of one thousand acres each.
In the harvest fields the metallic click of the reaper is heard instead
of the swish of the old-time cradles. But many of the older in¬
habitants around the neighborhood recall the days when the former
owners of I edington lived like kings.
At that time the walls of the old house were decorated with
portraits painted by English masters; the polished dining-room
table shone with silver and cut glass; the great wheat crop was
loaded aboard vessels by means of an elevator, said to be the first
in the country, and the owners of the old plantation ruled a little
principality.
J. M. BELL.
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