Residents are worried that a developer’s plans to build around the remnants of an 18th-century plantation could be ...

CHARLES CITY, Va. -- Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his ...

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 ...

As the first permanent settlement established by colonists upon their arrival in North America, it’s only natural that ...

Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Va. is owned by the Hill-Carter family ... Today, none of the original slave house are still in tact. Located in Jones County, Ga., Jarrell Plantation stands ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 ... had been stolen from their homes in Africa, forced to board ...

Mr. Tyler, the first vice president to succeed a dead president, quickly took the oath of office, moved into the White House and assumed ... Tyler retired to his Virginia plantation and withdrew ...