If you are a History buff or want to be, a drive through Westmoreland County is the road trip for you. Actually, to take this tour of Westmoreland County, you are driving on the oldest road in the United States. https://www.oldest.org/geography/roads-us/ The 1,300 mile stretch called King’s Highway was created between 1650-1735 from South […]
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Westmoreland County Museum Spring Garden Tour
For the first year, Westmoreland County Museum is holding a Spring Garden Tour in Westmoreland County. The tour offers entry to 7 gardens for $20 per person, $35 per couple, or $15 per person for Westmoreland County Museum members. If you want to tour an individual garden, it will be $5 at the site on April 23; no […]
Westmoreland County Garden Club
Thank you to the ladies of the Westmoreland County Garden Club for decorating the Westmoreland County Museum.
Genius of the Garden
From the 1920s through the 1960s, the name Charles F. Gillette was synonymous with the best in landscape design in Virginia as well as the upper South. The peak years of Gillette’s career as a landscape architect coincided with the height of the Country Place era, when wealthy property owners throughout the United States built […]
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