The Beebe Ranch is an American horse ranch and museum located at 3062 Ridge Road, Chincoteague

Chincoteague, Virginia

Chincoteague is a town on Chincoteague Island in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The population was 4,317 at the 2000 census. The town is perhaps best known for the Chincoteague Ponies, although these are not actually on the island of Chincoteague but on nearby Assateague Island...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

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The museum focuses on two Chincoteague Ponies

Chincoteague Pony

The Chincoteague Pony, also known as the Assateague horse, is a breed of pony that developed and lives in a feral condition on Assateague Island in the United States states of Virginia and Maryland. The breed was made famous by the Misty of Chincoteague series written by Marguerite Henry starting...

, Misty and her foal

Foal

A foal is an equine, particularly a horse, that is one year old or younger. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, but these terms are used until the horse is age three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam , it may also be called a suckling...

 Stormy, featured in the novels Misty of Chincoteague

Misty of Chincoteague

Misty of Chincoteague is a 1947 book by American author Marguerite Henry, inspired by a real Chincoteague Pony named Misty. Set on the coastal island of Chincoteague, Virginia, the book tells the story of the Beebe family and their efforts to raise a filly born to a wild horse. The book won the...

(1947) and Stormy, Misty's Foal

Stormy, Misty's Foal

Stormy, Misty's Foal is a young-adult novel by Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis, and a sequel to Henry's Misty of Chincoteague. Both novels are based on historical characters, human and equine, but many of the facts were changed in the stories...

(1963) by Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry was an American writer. Henry inspired children all over the world with her love of animals, especially horses. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her work has captivated entire generations of children and young adults and won...

. Misty and Stormy resided at the ranch and now their taxidermically

Taxidermy

Taxidermy is the act of mounting or reproducing dead animals for display or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all vertebrate species of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians...

 preserved figures are displayed at the museum. Misty had stayed in the house at the ranch during the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962

Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962

The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 occurred on March 6–8, 1962 along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. It was considered by the U.S. Geological Survey to be one of the most destructive storms ever to affect the mid-Atlantic states...

, a major winter storm

Winter storm

A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are formed that only occur at low temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are low enough to allow ice to form...

 that struck the coast and became the basis for the book Stormy, Misty's Foal.

See also

• List of historical horses
• List of museums in Virginia

External links

• beeberanch.vpweb.com, museum's official website
• Database (undated). "Beebe Ranch". Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved November 17, 2011.