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World Class Dining – it all started here!
Rappahannock River Oysters – coming to a Restaurant near you!
Here in our neck of the woods, we have a great deal of local talent and enterprising friends. Check out some of our native Essex County friends and their successful aquaculture enterprise that is taking the culinary world by storm!
Rappahannock River Oysters – Travis and Ryan Croxton
The Daffodils of Gloucester – by Karin Andrews (contributing writer to the House and Home Magazine)
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Chesapeake Bay Oysters Making a Comeback!
Essex County’s own Travis and Ryan Croxton of RRO, bringing Oyster production back to the Chesapeake Bay!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/dining/a-chesapeake-homecoming.html?ref=dining&_r=0
Blandfield Plantation – Caret, Virginia
Blandfield Plantation is one of the great manor houses and estates still active in Essex County, Virginia. It is now the site of some of the greatest upland and waterfowl hunting excursions on the East Coast and also a Special Event / Wedding Venue. I am wrote this article for the House and Home Magazine on Blandfield and the work of the ECCA. A local group dedicated to historic preservation and also the preservation of farmland for future generations. Blandfield_article_for_house_and_home
Ben Lomond – Circa 1730 Dunnsville, VA
Ben Lomond is the only historic home deemed architecturally important enough from all of Lower Essex County, Virginia to be photographed in 1933 along with Bathurst, which no longer exists and great houses from Upper Essex, which include Elmwood, Blandfield, Brookes Bank, Edenetta and Kinloch, which is no longer standing. Ben Lomond is currently offered for sale and presents a rare buying opportunity. It is truly one of the last remaining Great Houses with a great historic legacy.
The Daffodil Festival is Almost Here!
Photos of Carousel
Carousel – A Stunning 40 acre Waterfront Estate on Deep Protected Water – Minutes from the Chesapeake Bay
