Once I was back from P-Town worked called. We had another weekend wedding, outdoors. One thing about this new job is that I enjoy so much being outdoors, so like I said is this work? This venue was in York County at Lauxmont Farm, currently owned by the Kohr family...think the ice cream. The estate and farm is now the ultimate wedding venue. The Kohr family still live on the land in their respective homes, but are not open to the public. There are at least five different areas on the farm to plan a wedding including a Japanese Garden. Lauxmont Farm and it's land occupies more then 750 green lush acres in Lower Windsor Township, exhibiting a placid beauty, and offers views that over looks the Susquehanna River, but is incongruous with conflict with the current family and has generated over many years. But that is a story for another day. It has had four different owners over the years, one gentleman was a elite horse breeder and businessman out to protect his family's farm from sly money counters, or a huckster who bilked a lot of people. There was a surgeon who owned it and hired hands to keep the farming going. The original owner was one S. Forry Laucks. Laucks was a prominent York industrialist who owned York Safe & Lock Co, which achieved international renown for it's bank vaults. He established Lauxmont in 1910 as his country estate, cobbling it together from struggling farmsteads in the ensuing decades and eventually acquiring more then 2,000 acres. When complete it had several livestock operations, bee hives, a dairy with state of the art automated milking operation, and a lounge for visitors to enjoy sandwiches and home-made ice cream. While the only operation that continues is it's horses, most of the farming part is gone, but the Kohr family now runs it as a wedding venue. No doubt it's stunning. I'm dying to see the inside of the chateau.
