MCINTOSHANDELDREDGE.REALTOR
530 ASHBY STATION RD FRONT ROYAL, VA
11 EAST MAIN ST BOYCE, VA
$1,725,000 4 BD | 3/1 BA | 4,671 SQFT | 18.31 AC
FOR RENT | $3,500/MO. 4 BD | 3/1 BA | STUDIO/IN-LAW SUITE
Turnkey, private horse property with a fully renovated 1791 house. Exceptional mountain views.
Everything is new in the renovation of the Station Master’s House. Zoned commercial/residential.
Anne McIntosh REALTOR® M 703.509.4499
annewmcintosh@gmail.com
Maria Eldredge REALTOR® M 540.454.3829
maria@middleburgrealestate.com
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By M.J. McAteer
s drivers barrel east down the mountain on Route 50 heading toward Paris and Upperville beyond, for a brief moment on their descent at Ashby Gap, they can get a glimpse of what surely is one of the prettiest views in all Virginia. Stretched out below is a landscape that looks like some peaceful realm in a fairy tale, and, in the foreground, as though ordered up to provide perspective, is the 700-acre Ovoka Farm, its precipitous pastures speckled with bulky, black cattle. Back in the 1730s, Ovoka took up a lot more of that view. It started as a 3,000-acre land grant, and, some 30 years later, its borders would be surveyed by George Washington, who slept there, too, of course. The property has always been called Ovoka, said co-owner Karen Way. Some say the name means “everrunning water.” Formerly a Chicago real estate attorney, Way and her husband, entrepreneur Guy Morgan, acquired the property in 2012, when he had family moving back to the area. Morgan’s grandparents had lived in Wildcat Hollow on the other side of the mountain from Ovoka when he was a kid, so he knew the farm well. Ovoka was in need of immediate TLC when they bought it. They fixed fences and pastures, renovated and greatly enlarged the stately manor house and rebuilt the cabin where Washington allegedly slept. They dubbed it the BunkHouse. The couple got into the cattle business, too, by importing 125 Wagyu embryos from Japan, which they then had implanted into surrogate Angus mothers. That allowed the farm to breed its own Wagyu bulls and start raising the exotic and expensive breed, which is prized for the uber-tenderness and tastiness of its meat. The high price of Wagyu beef, however, makes it a niche market that caters to deep pockets and special occasions, so about 275 of the farm’s 350 head of
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