Voices of Stafford

Sally is a retired schoolteacher and farm-land owner in western Stafford. The family farm, Poplar Grove, on which Ms. Fitzhugh lives, has a long and interesting history. She tells of times when enslaved people lived on the farm and of a cemetery for the enslaved located there in a small grove of trees. Former ownership included Quakers and a Quaker cemetery remains nearby just south at the corner of Poplar Road and Christy Lane. The farm, on gently rolling land also includes an old time ‘spring house.’ The stone chimney remains of a house built in 1868 for a new bride who refused to move there also exists. (74 minutes)