The LeMoyne Star

Opening the door brings in the unexpected in Waterford, Virginia

The old mill at Waterford, Virginia. Photo by author.

“Hmm, maybe the purple is best right here by the green.” Belinda Owens sat on the back porch of her log home in Waterford. The village’s handful of streets sprouted vernacular Virginia houses dating back a century and more. Sure, DC — only fifty miles away — was historic but the District never gave her this feeling of timelessness, of crisscrossing with ages past…