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The current owner is the greatgrandson of Elizabeth Miller, of Greenwood Farm, Tour House A in Gid Brown Hollow. The house contains many furnishings from these past Massie generations including James Massie’s great-grandfather, Colonel Thomas Benjamin Massie, commander of the 12th Virginia Cavalry in the Civil War and leader of the “Beefsteak Raid” at Scoggin’s Point in September 1864 that netted approximately 2,500 head of Union Army cattle to feed General Lee’s army. Abraham Lincoln described the raid as “The slickest piece of cattle stealing I’ve ever heard of.”
Noteworthy among the furnishings are two corner cupboards from the 1700s in the dining room. Col. Massie’s bed, an 1850 sewing machine in one guest room and an unusual “top hat” bed of the Monroe period in another. At the foot of the bed in the main bedroom is a chest that belonged to Peyton Anderson, the first Confederate soldier wounded in the Civil War.
Like many homes in the county, “Meadow Grove” has been touched by the early history of our nation, has housed hard-working farmers and stood through Indian raids, war and the ever-changing patterns of trade and commerce.
Other houses on the tour include “Greenwood Farm” in Gid Brown Hollow, 1.5 miles north of Rediviva , on Rt. 211, the home of Mrs. E.A. McNear, and “Rush River House,” home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Leggett, in Harris Hollow.
Miss Ruby Jenkins’ Washington Museum, featured in the December 1984 issue of The Virginia Magazine and the January 1985 issue of Coun
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