Rediscovering America: Exploring the Small Towns of Virginia & Maryland by Bill Burnham & Mary Burnham

Author:Bill Burnham & Mary Burnham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Hunter Publishing
Published: 2009-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Around Town

A post office came in 1831 to join the one store and one house in town. In 1862 Lee’s entire army camped here. Considered part of Mosby’s Confederacy, the Union Army twice sent search and destroy missions, burning much of the buildings. The Manassas Gap railroad had reached The Plains in 1852, and after the freight depot was built in 1892 to pick up the produce grown in nearby farms, the town started to thrive.

In the early 1990s, the train depot was narrowly saved from destruction by a citizens’ group called “Save the RR Station.” Enid Adams (tel. 540-253-5678, a fabric and garden designer, was the first artist to move her studio into the station’s waiting room and encouraged other artists to join her. Large windows look into the various studios at RR Arts Depot, where you might be able to catch artists at work during the week, or by appointment.

TRAVEL TIP: Several shops and restaurants are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and artists are generally not in their studios on weekends, so the best days to visit The Plains are Wednesday through Friday.

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