The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-20
RURAIELEGANcEAND REPOsi
. A Place Well Worthy Of a Visit.
,.~ WHEELING, July 10, 1870.

A Place Well Worthy Of Visit.
WHEELING, July 10, 1870.
To Tie Wheeling LHtelligenesr:
Half generation ago a sightgeekeI
hereabouts, aiter having reached Kings
Flat" duly wondered ut the incom'
parable audacity of the old Indian fighter
Mccullough, and shuddered at the bare
idea otimnn9aGd horse dleaplng tor. .qeal
life down so prccipitous dCclinc-a very
Dover clilI for dizziness-would have
turned with relief to theplacid beauty q
l6Ac prospect to tlle east, TINT Is, If tile sea
son Of the year Ind been summer Fal
below him q creek, large as mountain
river, flowing slowly with winding alfel
winding through green and smiling val.
kleya mile wide, enclosed byhills covered tc
ticir tops with the forest primcval;" snug
farm-Aouscs, grain fields. and abundant
othcf evftieHces : N rural prospect
ity and content, would have given
him quiet pleasure and III rcmem'
IAJftncc TO DO cherished through life
But beautiful, tlnquestionaDly, as the val.
kaey then wAs, It is now (fitteen years later
doubly more exquisite; and why I be
Cause wealth and taste saw, admired, pur'
chased and adorned; i; snAtchcd q grace
from art and bestowed it upon the land
scNpc; in a word, built. .eolpmOliOus resi-.
tiencrs, planted and cultivated bright and
fragrant garlcns, dotted the valley with
tlle evidences ot, high civilization.
n tn,i ridn n;st silIfOlIrli tliiS valley, at
this season Of the year, you will pass over
one Of the finest, roads in the Union
pnd catch glilnpses sometimes, some
lines full views, Of country resi-:
dcnces ON each side embosomed
IN foliage,. see fields Of grain, some
cut, some rip enipg t0rt harvest; groves
of trees nhtf1e toSthcS sbit and heAr the
voices Of innumerahle birds, for full six
miles until the straight course Of the
valley is abruptly checked by a magniti.
cent wooded lili, , Farther cast you need
| not CO. 9tfr t6kfng this drive, ihowever,
you will have passed on your lett, 1t miles
from town, the locally noted property o.
one of our most energetic, sNgacious and
successful business men,, Thomas Horn
brodk, ESQ, and In passing you viii not
have failed to take admiring notice OF the
knoll OF easy grade, thick.set with trees
and shrubbery of almost infinite variety,
and bUrdcred along the pike for perhaps
seventy rods (the extent Of 'front.' with an
imposing array Of forest and evergreen
trees, q soft and tender beauty added tc
their statclluess bNN, blooming hedge o.
roses and altheas Ht their feet.
Doubtless YOU have . curiosity 70 scEE :
more Of n place That promises so vel al
first sight, Nnl.IrOm theH outside. Return
and enter (the liberal and cultivated pro
prietor,e extends a general and. hearty invi
tation), and you shall find yet greater
cause for admiration. ut Is true, there arc
here no park containing huge oaks
thousand years 36ld; no beech avenue
three or four miles long; no castlt
gray with age and Tapped in romantic
Tradition, no marble statues, vases
fountains, .grottoes, lakes, &c., &c
Such sights belong 10 countries and socic
tics different from and older than Oul
own. But remembering that Dir. Horn
brook purchased this property only seven
teen years ago, and did not commence
inpr0ying il until some gearsNtterWards
y6u shall ffdndetl at Tile slSilE And success
with which, in so short u time, q brown
corntieId has been metamorphosed into
little paradise Of singular and exquisite
beauty, = I'M, i'1,,l :, ., I. =! ~, :. /"
fronts on tho National Road some seventy
rods, and extends back to the wooded
hill, a distance OF thrce-tourths Ola mile
The entrances are two-the first, o lant
forty feet willie; the second, and farthes
e,lst, an avenue thirty.six feet broad, limit
ell on each side BY an eSpaler Of many
different kinds ot trees, tempering tht
suns rays for superb reaches ot bloom anC
fragrance. Indeed, the. drives over thu
property may be called one EXTENDED
avenue, SO conirived as. 10 permit tht
visitor 10 inspect all the beauties Of tllt
place, and obtain charming views at many
pOintS of the scenery around. M, !DsG
Just in rear of the mound stands the I'm
prctentious but comfortable summer resi-
dence OF Mr.. HQrnbrook, 10 which aprlvat'
garden is attached, by itself alone worthy
Of u much more extended examination
than we were able to give 1T Farthel
back at some distance from the house art
very cOnmodi0us Out-buildings, stabling
granarieS,, tool md carriage, houses, SGf.
all hi tEle most perfect ottler'ahd SsttlplleI
with everything necessary to make in
provcmcnts md keep Tip pTepaira Their
are two, springs Of water on the place
both medicinal. To enumerate the Vartou
kind. 6f 4tfcesS plants, sc. (which havl
enpIaHtea tIEIIl trained With sedulou
care, would take 4 volume. But thsrcar
hundreds ofaiNOst superb IcHergr reen
from twenty to forty feet Righ, and thous
anls bt lcsSer growth Iamopg gthemi whit
and Austrian pines, rcd ccdars, Norway
spruces, homlOcks, larches, Scotch ant
silver frs, jumpers, American and Siberian
arbOr vilie, &C., trec and dwarf box, &c
and also an immense variety q! NAPLES
elnisg Euelish lihdcnspHds American hoEs
chesthuts; silver lest poplqfs, nhidel
hair, deciduOus cypress, weeping, willows
balm Of Gileads, and hundreds Q
magnolias Of many varieties, anon
them grqnGvtorG, glqHca, trepetala, or alll
btjllq, 8 SS46r9b bt9td, GetlgliltqtG Z, 4gtIfflll
Iatd, coR8picuG and pu1puTed, with tloW
ers odOrous as "gales from Araby III
blcst;" oaks, the common and mountain
ash, and fruit trees (apples cherries, pear
peache and liinsl together With ehrub|
iasnlne4 hoheYa kles, ,swIee et.bslets rye
In Neat brOfusiOh, ddilE monthly audat
nusl, verbenas, smoke trees, covered Wit
Edelicate gauzy webs, numerous fowertnl
hot.housR plants, foliage plants, VIII