Furr Farm

Furr Farm is a 95-acre farm northwest of Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia, built up over roughly 140 years. Its main house began around 1790 as a two-story log dwelling over a stone basement. A frame addition followed in the early 19th century, a Greek Revival portico in the mid-19th century, and a kitchen and bath addition around 1930. Surrounding the house are a log summer kitchen or meat house, a barn, a stable, a corn crib, a dairy, sheds, and dry-laid fieldstone walls. The farm was the scene of a fierce cavalry fight during the Battle of Aldie on June 17, 1863, when men of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry were trapped along the stone-walled road. The house served as a field hospital. In 1891 veterans erected a granite monument on the farm, reportedly the first regimental monument placed by Union soldiers on a Southern battlefield. The log house also illustrates a less common two-story form of local log building.