Virginia Horse Festival

Long before Thoroughbred horses galloped across its wide expanse, The Meadow served as hunting grounds for the Youngtamund and Pamunkey tribes of the area. Its name dates back to a 1674 description of the land as ‘ye Great Meadow on the freshies of the Pamonkey” (the North Anna River). In the 1700s, the land formed part of the 10,000-acre North Wales Plantation in Caroline County. In 1805, Dr. Charles D. Morris purchased 4,000 acres, and The Meadow became a place in its own right and his family’s home for the next 100 years.