Jones Homestead

The land where the picnic and cabin areas are today was once the homestead of William Marshal Jones and his family, whose homesite stood adjacent to the creek just across the old stone bridge. William Jones and his wife, Eunnace Phipps, were married on November 8, 1884, and reared nine children on their homestead. In 1939, one of their sons, Ervin, bought the land. Ervin Jones and his wife, Treva, raised six children on the homestead before moving to Mill Creek in 1953. The land was sold to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1969. Apple butter, once a staple made by the self-sufficient people who lived here, is still made from local apples in the fall.

Virginia · United States