Thursday, January 28, 2010

Virginia is in! The Owl Cam is on the way to Maryland




Rob in Virginia sent this report in for his shoot!

For the Virginia stop of the traveling cam project I decided to go with an American History theme and photographed the Mclean House in Appomattox Court House, VA. This is the house where on Sunday April 9th 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant. The house was dismantled in 1893 to be sent to Chicago to be used as an exhibit in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Due to cash flow and legal problems this never happened and the home sat dismantled until the 1940’s when the National Park service to over the property and reconstructed the small village. This has been one of my favorite sites here in Virginia to visit and each time I go I find something new to shoot.

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