Part Two of Shopping and History

This is the plaque on the outside of the gate before you enter the Cemetery. The gate and a simple grape ivy wreath with a black bow, you can see a part of a tradition Christmas wreath as well.

The white crosses are markers for the graves of the slaves who are buried there.

Scattered white cross grave markers.

This little white cross was alone and almost lost in the snow.

The photo below is the grave site of a mother and her seven children, this was the headstone that the lady at the antique shop said we should look for.

I want to try and learn more about this cemetery and something about the people who have been laid to rest here.

I hope everyone has had a nice weekend, I know that we did, it is always nice to learn a bit about the area in which you live. Sometimes I think that I have to go to far off places to feel a sense of history, but we all have history in our own back yard and I think I will be exploring more

in my "back-yard".

This is the bread thing, and for the life of me I cannot remember what it is called, anyway, for now it is on the kitchen table. Below that is my carved wooden crow, "hitched" to the toy red farm wagon which I filled with rusty snow flakes, I love those things! And the last photo is of the little wooden carrier I bought last week at the other antique shop, it appears bright red in the picture, but it is not, for now it is waiting on my mother's hutch to find its proper "home"! I love to find little bargains and when I can, purchase them and bring them home, when I look at them my mind wanders back to the day I bought them. Simple little treasures that I enjoy!

A Little Shopping and a Little History.

Even though the temperature was only 26 degrees today I told my husband that after lunch I wanted to take a little drive to an antique shop that I like to browse around in. . .and so we did. It is only a few miles from our home and it was fun to go out and do something special. I want us to start taking little day trips on the weekends and learning more about "our neck of the woods". The woman working at the antique shop told us a bit about the history of the cemetery across the road. We were told that a Civil War General was buried there, but she was not sure where the grave was. She felt that since it was so cold that we should look for the grave site in warmer weather. Our next visit we will plan on doing that. Then she told us about a small slave and free black cemetery just a bit further down the road; for us this was a must see. I think, for my husband and I that was the best part of the trip. I love American history and to walk in this cemetery made you aware of how far we have come as a country. We did not feel the cold of the late afternoon air but we did feel a sense of wonder standing there and seeing the old gravestones and the simple white wooden crosses that mark the site of where the slaves are buried. I was happy that we learned about this cemetery and I would love to go back and sit on the bench they had there and just "think" about the people buried there, what it must have been like for them.



And now some photos of the shop and the area.

Lamington Antique Shop.

Almost directly across the road is a cemetery, we were told that there are Civil War soldiers buried there and a General from the Civil War.This is the back of the red barn. The Dr. Pepper sign was painted on this barn because the company was going to do a commercial, for some reason they changed their mind and the commercial was never shot, but the owner of the barn wanted the Dr. Pepper logo to remain there. . .a bit of local history for this area.

Some of the beautiful quilts on the second floor of the shop, most are very, very old with a few new ones added. I loved this little setup of the bedroom, I really like reds/yellows together, I am not a pastel person, I only like pastels in nature.

Below was my most favorite quilt, I told my husband if he bought it today it would count as my Valentine's Day gift. . .he looked at the price tag, rolled his eyes and walked away! Hey, I think I am worth it! The quilt is still in the shop, but I did get a carved wooden crow, a long wooden bread board and little toy farm wagon. I love old farm toys, they bring me back to my childhood of growing up on a farm in Upstate New York. You must be wondering the price on the quilt, it was over $500.00!

I took a close up photo of the quilt, rusty barn reds/browns/tans/cream are another favorite color combination. Those are the colors in my living room.


This will be a two part post because I want to share the photos from the Slave Cemetery.