SWOH | JLinMD - 3/14/2024 05:30
My Grandad rented the Roulette Farm at the Antietam battlefield, down Bloody Lane, for years. Now my Uncle farms it. The barn had cannonball damage we always looked at when filling it with straw. The older guy that owned it used to say how every year after plowing you could walk the field and just pick up bullets. He sold to the park service just before he passed. They don't allow metal detecting. Can't even put straw in the barn anymore.
I was at the Antietam battlefield last year around the 1st of April, we were up in the tower at Bloody Lane watching a farmer spread poultry litter on the field right next to it. Seems like it would be a challenge to farm near a large battlefield like Antietam or Gettysburg. The scenery around Sharpsburg and Harper’s Ferry is gorgeous though. |
Civil War fought where farmland is now.
