Group in Boxwood Maze

Photograph taken at Red Hill, showing from left to right: Dr. Thomas Stephen Buie, Soil Conservation Service Regional Director for Spartanburg, South Carolina; Virginia Governor William Tuck; Reverend Ralph Bellwood; and an unidentified representative of the Soil Conservation Service. The photograph is one of a collection taken by the Southside Soil Conservation Service (SCS) on October 18, 1950. They document “Miracle Day” – an SCS demonstration project at Red Hill organized to rehabilitate the neglected farmland for the use of the Patrick Henry Boys Plantation.