September Rivah Visitor's Guide - The Rappahannock Record

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It happened here by Larry S. Chowning There were two attempts to establish Jewish colonies in the Water View area of Middlesex County, and both times they failed. As early as 1876, Joseph Friedenwald and David Weisenfeld, two Jews from Baltimore purchased farmland at Water View. They first purchased “Buckingham,” the site of the colonial home of the legendary Corbin family. Other than the Wormeleys of Rosegill, historically the Corbins were as noted as any family in colonial Middlesex. In August of 1882, Friedenwald purchased “Inglewood” at Water View, and between 1882 and 1889 he settled a number of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrant families on the land. They arrived by steamboat from Baltimore to the Water View Steamboat Wharf with high hopes of establishing a colony. Inglewood consisted of 485 acres of timber and grazing land. The farm had two dwellings, a workshop and a mill house. Up to 15 families settled on the farm and lived in one-room or two-room shanties built in a row. Each family owned a horse and a cow given to them by Friedenwald. After four or five years, some of the settlers became ill and died. Others left by steamer and went back to Baltimore. In December of 1937, one of the coldest winters on record, 15 Jewish families moved to Weeks Farm near Water View from Saginaw County, Michigan, in what was to be a last-ditch effort to create a Jewish “promised land” in Middlesex County. The families were members of the Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community, which was an organization formed in the early 1930s in Detroit that was designed to create a new social order for Jews. Their vision was to establish a community that was completely self-sufficient and completely independent of the outside world. It would produce its own food, educate its own children, and provide its own cultural development. It was to be a Jewish Utopia that would provide all mankind with a living example of the ideal of a better humanity. When they arrived at the 642-acre Weeks Farm, they moved into three dormitory-style buildings that had no electricity or plumbing. The roads in Middlesex were either made of dirt or oyster shell. By 1937, the steamboat had stopped frequenting Water View Wharf. The winter of 1937 was one of the worst on record and the colonists’ plan to build a Utopia was thwarted. The entire area was covered with ice and snow for months. The families stayed at Weeks Farm for a little over a year before leaving for other areas. In April of 1940, the land was sold and just eight years later, a new Jewish nation was started across the ocean. It was named Israel. It happened right here in Rivah country! 12
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