People with money love to close roads and take over the land. The road leading to the dock will be abandon, and will give the landowner a whole bunch of new private riverfront. Clearly a grab for public land.
The family who owns Rockland (National Register) has owned it since Revolutionary war General Rust (contemporary of Thomas Jefferson) built the place in 1822. The question of “right of way” has been kicked around by envirowhackos, who say that all bodies of water (all of them, even streams through private land) should have 6 feet of public access through the land. It did not pass in NC, and never will except in whacked out lib urbanized zones... as the burbs sprawl on out to farmland. It is clear that the ferry people do not want to pay rent for their landing on private land-which has no easement from VA. Nor have they ever wanted MD DOT to take over the ferry.
The Rust family descended through his daughter, married name Brown, since that time. Elderly mom, taken care of at home by her RN daughter who also farms the 600 acres, and tries to compete with a real historic property vs. the multitudes of wine snobby half@ss wedding venues. Taxes are unreal- and the mob is licking its chops for tract homes, and gubmint intrusion types are all over facebook with “Karens” and “kens” comments reading like an AntiFA doxxing campaign out to “get” the 198 year family owned farm.
Text from the National Register writeup:
“Rockland takes its name from the limestone outcroppings permeating the 600-acre farm, located in the Catoctin Rural Historic District. Gen. George Rust, a prominent Loudoun County gentleman, replaced deteriorating wooden structures with this imposing brick mansion in 1822. Of large scale and with boldly detailed woodwork, the house is one the finest of several important Federal plantation dwellings in the area. The property was later inherited by Gen. Rust’s son, Col. Armistead T. M. Rust, an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee, with fourteen children and an encumbered estate. Exuding tremendous energy and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated her youngest children. Her sons were sent west at age fifteen to escape the hardships of Reconstruction. Her son Edwin enlarged Rockland around 1908. As of the mid-1990s, Rockland remained owned by Rust family descendants.”