I live in Loudoun, not that far from the ferry and for the life of me can’t understand why this matters or is making news. Who cares?

Anonymous wrote:But the farm is not maintaining it - the ferry is it sounds like.
The “negotiations” sound like extortion.

An shame on PPs who keep using the politics of the owners as any kind of factor in this - that should be totally irrelevant.

Because the politics of the owners DO matter. To me, and to lots of others.

And I rejoice whenever I see a trumper business fail.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think Rockland will reverse its mind or will the government have to step in?

The farm tried to negotiate and the Ferry refused.

They tried to buy the business from them. That's extortion. Sell to us or we shut you down.

False. They also offered to lease the land to them. White’s refused. Whites wants all the money for themselves. They didn’t even respond to various forms in contact from Rockland’s lawyers. Whites knew all along this was the path it would take.

Is it really that much money? I didn’t get the impression that the ferry was killing it.

Well if it’s not profitable why do it at all? White’s was probably about to close anyway. I bet Covid and WFH didn’t help. It’s a lot easier to just take Point of Rocks. The extra distance is easily made up for by not waiting/loading/unloading the ferry.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think Rockland will reverse its mind or will the government have to step in?

The farm tried to negotiate and the Ferry refused.

They tried to buy the business from them. That's extortion. Sell to us or we shut you down.

False. They also offered to lease the land to them. White’s refused. Whites wants all the money for themselves. They didn’t even respond to various forms in contact from Rockland’s lawyers. Whites knew all along this was the path it would take.

Is it really that much money? I didn’t get the impression that the ferry was killing it.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think Rockland will reverse its mind or will the government have to step in?

The farm tried to negotiate and the Ferry refused.

They tried to buy the business from them. That's extortion. Sell to us or we shut you down.

False. They also offered to lease the land to them. White’s refused. Whites wants all the money for themselves. They didn’t even respond to various forms in contact from Rockland’s lawyers. Whites knew all along this was the path it would take.

Hi Libby! Good try. Go back in your hole.

Who is Libby?

It doesn’t matter anyway. The court sided with Rockland. The only one who lost anything here is White’s. So few people used the stupid thing (with all the waiting it was not convenient and didn’t save time) and it was constantly closed due to high water. I don’t see what the big deal is that it’s gone.

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Anonymous wrote:They better watch it. I think Md wants the ferry there and Md has jurisdiction over the entire river bed. Md could cause all kinds of mischief. A river recreation zone for the homeless comes to mind.

Lol. A campsite for the homeless, the addicted, illegals criminals avoiding ICE, juvenile detention with access to unlimited boating and rec equipment.

The ferry can stop 1 inch short of the Rockland property for a on the half hour “visit Dixie” excursion program for the addicted/criminal half way/destitute / undocumented and those with incurable infectious diseases.

Super cute, except for the fact that Maryland was a slave state and part of Dixie, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think Rockland will reverse its mind or will the government have to step in?

The farm tried to negotiate and the Ferry refused.

They tried to buy the business from them. That's extortion. Sell to us or we shut you down.

False. They also offered to lease the land to them. White’s refused. Whites wants all the money for themselves. They didn’t even respond to various forms in contact from Rockland’s lawyers. Whites knew all along this was the path it would take.

Hi Libby! Good try. Go back in your hole.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think Rockland will reverse its mind or will the government have to step in?

The farm tried to negotiate and the Ferry refused.

They tried to buy the business from them. That's extortion. Sell to us or we shut you down.

False. They also offered to lease the land to them. White’s refused. Whites wants all the money for themselves. They didn’t even respond to various forms in contact from Rockland’s lawyers. Whites knew all along this was the path it would take.

But the farm is not maintaining it - the ferry is it sounds like.
The “negotiations” sound like extortion.

An shame on PPs who keep using the politics of the owners as any kind of factor in this - that should be totally irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible. This is such a terrible thing to do. Unbelievable!

Was looking at rockland for a wedding venue and will absolutely not consider it now.

Greedy.

What is greedy is the ferry using someone's property and not paying rent.

What is greedy is using a technicality to void an agreement and then trying to charge $200,000 per year rental for a piece of land that is basically otherwise worthless.

Well they won’t get their $200k year plus pretty much everyone now hates them. This has not ended well.

Oh well, Whites was paying them nothing before. Why should Whites get to use it for free? That’s absurd.

Well, it wasn't free. There was an agreement in 1952 that set a token amount- $5. And this was done simply to resolve any question over the matter. Even before that it was clearly the intent of the 1871 order to condemn the land to establish a landing for the ferry at that location.

That would even cover the maintenance and property taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think Rockland will reverse its mind or will the government have to step in?

The farm tried to negotiate and the Ferry refused.

They tried to buy the business from them. That's extortion. Sell to us or we shut you down.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible. This is such a terrible thing to do. Unbelievable!

Was looking at rockland for a wedding venue and will absolutely not consider it now.

Greedy.

What is greedy is the ferry using someone's property and not paying rent.

What is greedy is using a technicality to void an agreement and then trying to charge $200,000 per year rental for a piece of land that is basically otherwise worthless.

Well they won’t get their $200k year plus pretty much everyone now hates them. This has not ended well.

Oh well, Whites was paying them nothing before. Why should Whites get to use it for free? That’s absurd.

Well, it wasn't free. There was an agreement in 1952 that set a token amount- $5. And this was done simply to resolve any question over the matter. Even before that it was clearly the intent of the 1871 order to condemn the land to establish a landing for the ferry at that location.

Anonymous wrote:The owners of whites ferry are huge trumpers. I’m glad they e been run out of business.

Both sides are Trumpers. I don’t know why this keeps coming up.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible. This is such a terrible thing to do. Unbelievable!

Was looking at rockland for a wedding venue and will absolutely not consider it now.

Greedy.

What is greedy is the ferry using someone's property and not paying rent.

What is greedy is using a technicality to void an agreement and then trying to charge $200,000 per year rental for a piece of land that is basically otherwise worthless.

Well they won’t get their $200k year plus pretty much everyone now hates them. This has not ended well.

Oh well, Whites was paying them nothing before. Why should Whites get to use it for free? That’s absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to wonder if Rockland was built with slave labor?

They rent out the former slaves’ quarters on VRBO

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017892134/
https://t.vrbo.io/wz6k82D1Bcb

The 2nd link doesn’t work.

Yes, it does.

Works for me, and pretty gross to post slave quarters as a country getaway spot. Oh walking distance to wineries! Yay.

https://www.vrbo.com/4656397ha?_branch_match_id=562624256501194873&adultsCount=1&oc=vzcBuFayNlCdRFCxdhRve&utm_campaign=earned%3Avrbo%3Ashare%3AXXX%3AUS%3Aios&utm_content=4656397ha&utm_medium=social&utm_source=direct

People pay $200 a night for that? Its really badly decorated.

Agree. It looks like a really crappy old hotel.

That’s you complaint? It was slave quarters FFS.