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Valley History: The Sharyland Plantation

By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalVisionaries always prove intriguing. They can always envision things down the road for which most of us lack the capacity. Without them, we’d probably all still be living back in the caveman days. Take the wheel, for example. Who was the first brain who came up with that idea?The Sharyland Plantation is a case in point, which actually mixes the fruits of more than one visionary: John Shary and the Hunt Brothers Nelson Bunker, William Herbert, and Lamar.Take John Shary, for example, after whom Sharyland is named as is the Sharyland Plantation, named in honor of ...

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