A Place
with Purpose BY CAROLINE TAYLOR
On this crystalline
morning. I’m thinking
hard of traveling with
you on a tour of the
Agricultural Reserve—offering a
sampling of it’s 93,000 acres as we
only have three hours together.
We meet up at the historic
Seneca Store (aka Poole’s Store) not
far from Poolesville and take a little
time to see the remarkable renovation
of the place. The vegetable
starters are just in and folks have
cheerfully descended to supply
their home gardens. This general
store, located near both the Seneca
Greenway trail and C & O Canal,
has served the rural community
and visitors for decades—a little
gem you might call it.
Right off the bat I am thrilled
to hear that you spent time in
advance researching the Reserve,
now celebrating its fortieth year,
so a lesson of how it came to be
and the zoning mechanisms that
regulate it is not needed. How,
you keenly inquire, is it meeting
its purpose as laid out by planners
decades ago and what does the
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