SkyWatch Friday - Falling Creek Park

Falling Creek Park . Bedford . Va

Last week Nick and I picked up some lunch and took it over to this park and have a picnic. This is a great park with miles and miles of trails but what I loved most of all was this old barn.  I tried and tried to find info on it but really only found that it is known as the “1936 Red Barn” or the “County Farm Barn”.

“According to a Virginia DHR architectural survey form, the red barn is a local landmark in the area and was constructed at a cost of $5,000. It was considered a modern, “model” structure. On the property, livestock was raised, sold and boarded from many area family farms, cereal grains sold and significant purchases made from local businesses.”

(Copied from The News Advance)

I did find some neat links though!

Old Virginia Newspapers

Barns of Bedford Project

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TGIF 🙂

Thankful Thursday - Family

 Mother’s Day 2021

Hi!! Boy have I missed blogging! Got kind of out of the groove when I was having computer issues which I’m still experiencing with memory issues. I got a storage drive thing but haven’t moved everything over and I haven’t even been using my good camera at all in quite a while. I did get a new iPhone 12 for Mother’s Day so I’ve been taking lots of pictures with this! Blogging from my phone instead of the computer is a bit tricky for me still...was so used to my desktop! Hopefully I’ll catch on quickly!

So on this Thankful Thursday I am thankful for my sweet family and the times that we are all able to gather together!

I am looking forward to reconnecting with my blogging family too!!

Hope you are all doing well!!

Linking with Michelle’s Thankful Thursday

Social Distancing

Moneta, VA

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Tuesday's Treasures - Meador's Store

 

Moneta, Virginia

So carrying on from Friday, this sits next door to the Produce Warehouse/Dinwiddie & Son...in the movie "What About Bob", this was the store. From what I have been able to find is that this was an antique shop/coffee shop when the film crew wanted to use it and it was changed into a store...I haven't been able to find much on it except I think it was originally the Meador Store...from the small amount of info I could find!

These were taken in August, it's not as green now!

I actually crept along this porch, against my husband's better judgment!

I like that light hanging!

If you look closely in the window, you can see that people have left lots of little messages, mostly relating to the movie.

I also like these doors!!

See?! Isn't that a pretty cool light?!

A peek inside...I guess leftovers from its antique store days...I see a Trivial Pursuit game!

Looking towards the produce warehouse from Friday...

While we were there snapping pictures, another man from the "Abandoned Virginia" Facebook page was there haha, small world! 

Also, a local that lives behind here somewhere drove down and stopped to talk with my husband and myself. He grew up here, a bit younger than I am...he mentioned how a lot of people come here to take pictures and he understood, didn't seem bugged by it at all...seemed to love these old buildings too...even said he had his senior pictures taken here!! He was a nice guy!

I was trying to find some info on it, like when it was built, but came up empty handed...I did find some neat history though that does mention this and the building from Friday, plus the history of the area and families...you can read up by clicking these links: Down Home in Smith Mountain Lake & Moneta, The Little Town That Keeps Going

Linking up with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures & Our World Tuesday

Sorry for loading up on pictures on this post! Since I haven't been a regular poster lately I'm trying to catch up and get out of summer pics!!

Hope everyone is healthy and doing well!!

Dinwiddie & Son

 

Old Moneta

Hi again! Ugh, this new format (new to me) is taking some getting used to! Anyways, remember last time I posted I was telling you about this little abandoned place where some of the movie "What About Bob" had been filmed? To be honest I couldn't care less where the movie was filmed...I  saw it way back when it came out and thought it was funny and all...had no idea it had been filmed here, but then I lived way out in California when that happened haha...anyways, you know how I just love old, abandoned things so it only makes sense that I belong to a group called "Abondoned Virginia" on Facebook and that is where I first saw posts of this place, and learned about the filming of the movie...so, this building was spruced up and became the "bus depot" in the movie...

In real life though, which I'm more interested in this old place's history and the stories it could tell...I wasn't able to find out much, only that this building started out as Dinwiddie & Son.

This was once a thriving little village until the road was rerouted...

"It was the railroad, the same thing that helped the little town prosper, that killed the Moneta that was. Trains held up traffic longer than Virginia law allowed so the state rerouted Virginia 122 and closed the railroad crossing in 2000. The shops on Old Moneta Road soon closed and fell to ruin."

Quote found HERE

I'll show you more on Monday :)

Have a great weekend!

Window Dressing

Moneta, Virginia

A few weeks ago Nick and I were in search of some abandoned buildings where the movie What About Bob was filmed...this window was from a building in the same area...I'll show you more on the What About Bob filming location later! Today I am thankful for a little road trip Nick and I took today! We found a new museum dedicated to The Bedford Boys (from D-Day)...will show more from that later too! This one is worth waiting for! Linking with Tom's Signs2 and Michelle's Thankful Thursday

Magnolia

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