Historic Gardens of Virginia 



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 Tedington 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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