The Washington times., 1927-10-08
100000 FARM
IS SOLD

One Of the largest land sales
around Washington in recent years
Is reported by the office of Ruby
Lee Minar, Inc, which has just dis
posed of the 5000, 900 estate of the
late DR.. Hugh B. Hutchison adjoin-
ing Herndon, Va, to A. Smith Bow
man, business man and investor,
OF Indianapolis, Ind, and Lexington,
KY. Mr.. Bowman has been in
Washington for the last week to
complete the deal which is under
stood to have been an all-cash trans
action.
Deed was passed to Mr.. Bowman
by Gilbert NJ. Hutchinson, who was
acting for himself and the other
heirs to the estate. The purchaser
will conduct the property as a thor.
oughbred horse, stock and dairy
farm for the present, but it is an.
tlcipated that in the course of q,
few years, because of the wide.
spread interest in nearby Virginia.
land, the farm will be subdivided
into smaller tracts and become the
center OF an important development
project.
In Transportation Business
Mr.. Bowman has been in the
transportation business for the last
2O years. He inaugurated the first
lnterurban line in New Orleans and
also has been identified with the
business in Lexington, KY. More
recently he successfully established
Dus lines in Indianapolis in competi.
ton with the street RAILWAYS.
throughout this period Adr. Bow
man has been an investor in real
estate, having been at one time the
owner of a 6,000-acre tract in Canada
ana at another a 5,00O-acre planta.
ton in Louisiana.
Like most Kentuckians, Mr.. Bow.
man is lover of fine horses and
MS attention was attracted to the
Hutchison property because of ita
nearness to the National CAPITAL. its
situation in the midst of the horse.
raising section of Virginia, and it's
adaptability to the purposes he had
in mind.
Sunset Farms
sunset Farms" as the property
Is named, Is one of the widely known
estates of Northern Virginia. More
tnan 1000 acres are embraced in its
extensive boundaries and it is said
70 be the largest single tract of land
within an hours drive of the Ma
tional Capital. The Washington > nd
Old Dominion Railway runs four
miles along the southern boundaries
OF the property which stretches
three and a half miles northward to
frontage on the Alexandria-Leeu.
burg Pike. Five hundred acres are
In high state Of cultivation,
Iha 2n-fO0TH hrfrk V,aoy,a. La,,-. q
dozen tenant houses, three brick
warehouses, a store and post office.
and church, and the dairy and horse
barns are in this developed section
OF the property. Three thousand
acres of young timber and 500 acres
of virgin forest are on the farm.
DR.. Hutchison purchased tha farm
in 1908 with the idea ultimately of
subdividing and selling it as small
poultry and truck farms with CO.
operative marketing ARRANGEMENTS,
The war delayed his plans and a few
years later his death occurred.
Since that time the estate has
been continued as a model dairy
farm, the barns and four-room brick
dairy having been constructed un,
ger the supervision Of the Depart.
ment Of Agriculture.
The sale of the farm has created
much interest and comment among
residents of Fairfax county, as Il Is
regarded as significant of the early
development of even the sections Of
the county more remote from Wash
ington. There is reported to have
been more activity in Fairfax
county real estate in the last two
years than in any 10 years previous.