Did you know that Shenandoah Acres in Stuarts Draft, VA used to be the site of a cranberry bog back in the 1930s? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_Acres Originally, Shenandoah Acres was a farm consisting of orchards, and a cranberry bog encircling a small pond. The cranberry bog was well known by botanists as a location for several rare plants and orchids including the rose pogonia and grass pink orchids. In the journal Claytonia, the botanist Lloyd Carr described the pond as a sea of pink when the orchids were in bloom. The cranberry bog was one of a series of sinkhole ponds and wetlands in the Maple Flats area; perhaps the only one remaining with a similar flora is Spring Pond. After the bog was destroyed to create Shenandoah Acres, many of the rare species once found there became locally extinct.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:59:33 +0000
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