Welcome to the Digges' Valley Farm Ruins website!

 

Here I share information about the farm ruins in Digges' Valley I'm researching for a Historical Archaeology course. These were originally presented to me as the "Grubbs farm ruins" in Hamilton, Loudoun County, Virginia. The current landowner says it was passed down through the family, and he's always known it by that name. Through the course of my research, I discovered that there was a difference in the Grubbs and the Grubb family. The Grubb family became by far the most prominent in my findings, and I chose to focus on them as there was proof they were a widespread farming family in Loudoun County, Virginia.

 

Using Ancestry.com and the vast resources at the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg, Virginia, I was able to trace the family from their first ancestor who came from Cornwall, England, to Delaware in the 1660s, all the way up to the 1930s in Loudoun. I've also located the living Grubb family members still running a farm in the county. The Grubbs family began residing on the property in the 1920s.

 

The ruins are the foundations of a fieldstone house, barn, outbuildings, and an icehouse that is still standing on a branch of Catoctin Creek. The house and other buildings were still standing, and possibly in use, up through the 1960s, according to the landowner. They were subsequently knocked down for insurance purposes.

 

To find out more about the property, the ruins, and the people who lived there, visit the other pages of this site!

 

This site is currently a work in progress! 

 

I will continue to add and grow the site as I continue with my project for Historical Archaeology, as well as my own personal research. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the site, please message me on my About Me page - I would love to hear from you!