There comes a time when all those important things stored away for decades have to be dealt with — an example is a lifetime collection of automotive magazines that Urbanna resident Phil Friday had stored away.
“I retired a few years ago and started looking around at things I needed to clean out,” said Friday. “I had all these magazines that I had saved in an old steamer trunk that we had gotten years ago.”
“When everything was cleaned out of the trunk I looked in the bottom and saw a shipping tag from South Miami, Fla., to Rosegill Farm in Urbanna dated 3-29-1963,” he said. “The trunk was addressed from S.L. Shannon to S.L. Shannon which made me wonder who S.L. Shannon was and what was his relationship to Rosegill and Urbanna.”
Friday had stumbled across evidence of a bit of Rosegill/Urbanna history from years past. Sidney Lawrence Shannon Sr. and his wife Kathryn of Fredericksburg bought Rosegill Plantation in 1944.
The Shannons owned Rosegill until 1974. Shannon died at the age of 68 in 1970 and his wife sold the property to Alfred and Strother Scott of Richmond, the current owners.
The Shannons kept Rosegill as a working farm with a dairy, crop farming and raising cattle.
Phil Friday’s shipping tag is just a reminder that the Shannons lived in Rosegill and were part of the local culture here for 30 years.
“I can’t remember how or why I have the trunk but it has been apart of my life for a longtime and now it is even more interesting to me,” he said.
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