Manskin
Lodge
The Wormeley Family lived on a farm known as
“Manskin Lodge” located just
across and downstream of Totopotomoy Creek. All the descriptions I can find at the Virginia Historical Society keep saying “a
farm called Manskin Lodge. ” I think the farm was
named for the original Indian lodge located on
the Herman Map, not the house. In 2008 Frank Townesend of Pampatike also told me a story about a man
being skinned alive there by
the Indians, and that’s how it got its name (Man-Skinned.)
Totopotomoy Creek
1865 Blackford
Manskin Lodge Farm
“The
Island”
Herman 1670
