Ahistoric swath of farmland along the Pamunkey River has been permanently protected against development. The land’s native species, soils and history are part of a farm property once owned by the family of Martha Washington, the wife of first President George Washington.
The Capital Region Land Conservancy has been working since 2017 to have the property known as Rockahock, in New Kent County, placed into an Agricultural Land Easement. Such an easement ensures that farming will forever be part of the landscape at Rockahock, as it has been for the past 350 years.
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