The Stone Garden

At 250 acres, Heartstone Country Retreat is the largest remaining contiguous parcel of the original 600 acre plus Skaggs Springs Farm, one of the earliest tracts of settled land in Rockbridge County. From virgin timber in the 1700’s the land was cut over and opened by the Civil War Era. Wood was both the fuel for farm and home and the fuel for iron smelting, railroading, and sugaring. It was cut for tanning bark, burned to clear land for wheat, and used to build homes and bar