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Residents are worried that a developer’s plans to build around the remnants of an 18th-century plantation could be ...
is a 2,900-acre community that includes approximately 2,400 homes. The plantation was once the home of Lewis Burwell III, a colonist who was a politician and served as acting governor of Virginia ...
CHARLES CITY, Va. -- Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his ...
As the first permanent settlement established by colonists upon their arrival in North America, it’s only natural that ...
Many plantations, homes and living history sites are tied ... who was sold as a child from North Carolina through Virginia to Alabama, had a bill of sale and a value for his body on the death ...
On a recent morning in Leesburg, Virginia, King Street reverberated with modern energy from contemporary shops and cafes on streets plotted in the mid-18th century. Outside the city hub, housing ...
Randolph, a planter from wealthy, prominent Virginia family ... "That's the inherent conflict in any plantation house or history," Duggan said. "This building is a monument to, sort of the ...
The grandson was known for preserving his grandfather’s plantation and nearby ... as “the last gasp of the Old Virginia aristocracy in the White House.” He had married twice and had 15 ...
The following Washington County deed transfers for April 13-19, 2025 are public record in the Md. Department of Assessment and Taxation office.
The Nottaway Plantation in White Castle ... May 15, 2025 The house was completed in 1859 for John Hampden Randolph, a Virginia-born man who had moved to Louisiana to profit from sugar grown ...