Another Year Winds Down

As the last few days of 2009 wind down, I thought that a sunset theme would be an appropriate way to finish off the year.  May next year find all of you healthy and happy!

-Hominy

 

 

 

 

 

Portici

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Portici (pronounced por-tee-cee) was the name of an estate house located about 6-1/2 miles northwest of Manassas, Virginia that burned down during the Second Battle of Manassas in August of 1862.  The house was a large two story structure built sometime in the 1780's and was located on a high hill overlooking Bull Run.  The land on which Portici stood is now inside the boundaries of the Manassas National Battlefied Park in Prince William County, Virginia and while very little evidence remains of the original home, there are still some later built farm structures that exist as well as the graves of the family that lived there.

All of the photos in this post were taken on the land that comprised the original farm.