History & local legend
Renfrew Park in Waynesboro preserves a farm and museum landscape along the Antietam Creek. Its name recalls Sarah and Jane Renfrew, two sisters who, in the local tradition published by Franklin County's visitors bureau, died during an eighteenth-century raid.
The sisters are said to appear near the creek. That apparition story is tied to an older layer of local history than the surviving farm's better-known Royer and Nicodemus families, which can make the property's name puzzling without explanation.
Emma Geiser Nicodemus, who later owned the farm, had swum in the Antietam with her own sister as a child. An interview preserved by Friends of Renfrew recounts her wish to leave the property to Waynesboro as a museum and her decision to call it Renfrew.
