Hello, I am new to the list but I live in Fauquier County and may be able to do some lookups for people or take photographs in the northwestern part of the county. I live on the grounds of the old Leeds Manor Orchard /Apple Manor Orchard on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge mountain between Markham and Paris on a parcel of the Orchard my great great grandfather bought in 1914 as part of the original co-op and used as a vacation spot. Most of the old parcels have been combined thank goodness and the county won't let them split them up again (my parents were able to purchase a total of about 7 smaller parcels surrounding our original land to keep them from being developed) and about 3000 acres or so of the orchard was given to the state in the 1960's and is now the G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area. So except for about a dozen new houses on 25 to 500 acre lots; a lack of apple trees; and forests over much of the land, the area is basically the same as it was 9! 0 years ago. about 1500-2000 acres is still cleared and offers spectacular views. I actually have the original sales broshure/picture book with fold out lithographs taken from the top of the mountain in 1914. Its amazing the forest grew that fast. Most of the small cabins are gone now with the exception of the cabin my great great aunt found abandoned and had moved on logs around the mountain to put on her 5 acres which was next to her fathers. The cabin across the street burned down about ten years or so ago when the renters went into town after packing the fireplace full of wood. Until it burned down nobody realized that it was actually a log cabin that had been covered with wood siding. It was perhaps the oldest home in these parts probably built before the Revolution. I believe I saw a name of John Ferguson as the owner on some old maps but am not sure. My family is a relative newcomer to Faquier county being here only a little over 100 years. On my mother's mothers side of the family the Barbour's came from St. Louis to the Washington area where Frank Barbour was a medical doctor working for the Government. His unmarried daughter was a clerk at the bank that handled the finances for the Leed's Manor Orhard, and his wife's family had been originally from Culpepper (Col. William Lillard) and Shenandoah/Warren (Robert & Moses McKay) Counties before heading west. On my mother's father's side of the family my great grandfather Thomas Turnbull, Jr. was a medical doctor who taught medicine in Pittsburgh, PA. His wife, Mabel Hussey Turnbull inherited a fortune from her grandfather's copper and steel empires (her father died of a heart attack in 1884 shortly after Andrew Carnegie bought out his steel plant in Homestead, PA -- now called US Steel). They bought a summer home/ estate in Casanova, VA called Melrose Castle so his wife, Mabel Hussey Turnbull could avoid the pollution in Pittsburgh for health reasons. They sold the castle to put their kids through college but after he retired they built a new home nearby called Inwood and moved to the area permanently. Their two daughters, Janet and Harriet, never married and lived in Casanova all their lives. The Turnbull's were from Scottland and not related to the earlier Turnbull's in Virginia as far as I can tell. The Hussey's, McKays, etc. were Quakers from Pennsylvania. The McKays left the Quaker church and joined the Primitive Baptists around the time of the Revolutionary War. Andrew McKay (Moses,Robert) was a Lt. Col who served under Col William Lillard in the Rev. War and/or War of 1812 and the indian wars in easter Tennesee. Andrew's sister Nancy married Col. Lillard. The Lillards and McKays settled in Cocke County, TN for a time but ended up in Missouri, where Col Lillard's, great great granddaughter, Mary Ellen Goodin married Dr. Frank Barbour from Maine and moved back to Washington, DC I have also started a small home business making exact facsimile reprints of out-of-copyright genealogy and local history books and can make copies of any books people may have or want as long as they are either out of copyright or have the written permission of the copyright owner. Most books published in 1963 or before are out of copyright but about 10% of those published between 1923 and 1963 are still under protection. Paul Redden www.yesterbooks.com