The Eberly family moved from Pennsylvania to Henrico County in the 1880s and established Four Mile Creek Farm in Varina. Howard Eberly, 79, is a fourth-generation owner of the land and lives in the family home off Route 5.
Howard Eberly befriended a state archaeologist and historians who taught him some of the history of the Varina, Virginia land where his family’s farm sits.
Four Mile Creek Farm is a core part of the New Market Heights Battlefield and the scene of the battle on Sept. 29, 1864, when the U.S. Colored Troops broke through Confederate defenses for their greatest victory of the Civil War.
VARINA — Growing up in Varina in the 1940s and ‘50s, Howard Eberly played on his family’s farm, swam in the creek and found “treasures” on the land. Turns out,