Farm History

Mosby Spring Farm is LOCATED LESS THAN ONE MILE WEST OF MIDDLEBURG VIRGINIA AND IS WITHIN THE MOSBY HERITAGE AREA. THE ORIGINAL SMALL STONE HOUSE DATES BACK TO 1700'S AND THE SPRING LOCATED IN THE WOODS BEHIND the farm IS PURPORTED TO BE Where COL. JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY AND HIS RANGERS OFTEN Met. DR. JAMES WILTSHIRE AND HIS BROTHER CHARLIE, RODE WITH MOSBY'S RANGERS. FAMILY ORAL HISTORY SAYS THAT JAMES led THE famous GREEN BACK TRAIN ROBBERY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS THE ONLY RANGER IN POSSESSION OF A WATCH. CharlIe was killed in the CONFLICT, but James lived to Tell the STORIES OF THEIR ADVENTURES AND OF THE SMALL STONE HOUSE AND SPRING. HIS SON, TURNER, RETURNED IN THE 1920'S AND PURCHASED THE STONE HOUSE AND SPRING PROPERTY. HE THEN
ADDED on A LARGER STONE STRUCTURE IN THE SAME STONE MASONRY FASHION OF THE 1700'S.

HE then BUILT A LARGE STABLE WHERE HE and his wife, RAISED, TRAINED and competed STEEPLECHASE HORSES, ONE OF WHICH, Houseman, winner of the coveted west hills timber feature of the long island hunt cup 1940 and was then sold and WENT ON TO WIN THE 1941 VIRGINIA GOLD CUP.THE FARM IS STILL FAMILY OWNED AND RUN AND IS WITHIN The Mosby Heritage Area, the first heritage area designated in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Old Zulla Road is located on the property and the OLD Chinn Cemetery is adjacent to the farm. Family of Rawleigh Chinn -- the son of Rawleigh and Esther (Ball) Chinn. The History of Loudoun County asserts that Rawleigh Chinn, of Lancaster -- the progenitor of the Chinn's of Loudoun County -- made an initial purchase of 13,000 acres. He appears to have parceled that land to his numerous male children. Leven Powell purchased a portion of that land from one of those male children. It further appears that the Leven Powell purchase was made from the son whose descendants graveyard is now in Middleburg