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A 200-acre parcel of land was originally purchased in 1942 by Victor and Lucille Bradsher Walters. Victor and Lucille both came from Person County farm families. Victor Walters worked the land in tobacco for many years with his wife and three children, Carl, Betty and Rose. He owned a strawberry farm
(U-pick/We-pick) with Rose for a number of years and took fresh vegetables to the farmer's market even into his 80s and early 90s. As Victor got older and was no longer able to hoe the weeds by walking down the rows, he used a golf cart and one arm reaching with the hoe to weed the garden. He passed at 97 and now daughter and son-in-law, Rose and Marshall Dunn, tend the soil alongside Vic and Lucy's grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

High Rock Farms II is located at the corner of Corbett Ridge Road and Claiborne Road in northern Orange County. The farm has been in the Dunn family for several generations. Jennie Long Dunn had the homestead and her son, Robert Lewis, and Alta Dunn spent 69 years there together as tobacco, fruit and vegetable farmers. Their son, Robert Marshall Dunn, and his children and grandchildren now farm the land. Lewis, always known as Buddy to his friends, planted a new tree every year and the High Rock Farms family get together in late summer to make cider with some of the apples off the trees that Buddy and Alta planted.