Ben Lomond Historic Site — Attraction in Virginia

FABULOUS! FANTASTIC! AWESOME! Super packed informational tour with Lance! 2 history buffs had, undoubtedly the best tour guide in the United States. Ask him about taxation and how it came into being. He was extremely gracious and turned off the scents permeating the air. This girl has an extremely sensitive nose. I have been to a lot of museums in my long life. The best museum without a tour guide before they changed it, was the Buffalo museum at fort huachuca. But then the idiots running it changed everything about it. The best museum with a tour guide is this one.

Others joined our tour and made it even better! Then they left and we were talking about the kitchen, and the slave quarters, it was so interesting we were there for 4 hours. It was worth far, far, far more than the $5 entrance fee.

You can even pick up the recreated bullets, to feel the heft and see how they would damage a body.

I include a picture of a chair to show how small the seat of it was. Pictures of linimint bottles, and a photo of the- to me-simply stupid way to say slaves. They were not farm workers or dairymaids. (As an aside, Lance answered my question about the word 'enslaved '. I am now educated and will say that in the future when it is appropriate.)

There are only two things in the museum on the tour that you cannot touch.

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This site was incredibly informative and not the usual plantation experience. It was not the"Scarlet O'Hara, Gone With the Wind over the top plantation. It was more an average house on an average size plantation; made of field stone with nothing too fancy. More typical of the style found in Virginia. What made this experience so unique and worth the visit was this house had been used as a hospital for the Manassas Battle (Bull Run) that occurred just down the road. The house here is preserved as it would have been as a hospital. There are the surgeon's instruments on the operating table and the recovery rooms are furnished as they would have been during the battle and its aftermath. There is a slave quarters building and other structures of the time as well. The curators have done an incredible job with smells and sounds of a Civil War era hospital incorporated into tour; they are extremely knowledgeable about the history of the house, and surrounding lands, and the living conditions of the slaves who were there. This attraction is well worth the visit. See this in conjunction with the Manassas National Battlefield Park less than...

Our tour guide was super informative but not boring! He kept it interesting for sure, the building itself is a sight to see but to hear how everything unfolded there is super cool. My wife and I absolutely loved it, they aren't joking when they say hear see smell! One room had a barnyard scent to it which was decent but the medical room had gangrene as the scent and oh boy, do not I repeat do not get in close to take a smell of that one you WILL lose your appetite for quite a while. But it added to the feel and atmosphere if what stories were being told at the time, for the price (5$ a head) it's well worth it please stop by if you are in the area you...