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In residence: Harrison was born at Berkeley Plantation in 1773 ... The house is so beautiful, and the interior so airy and gracious, that when the traitor Benedict Arnold arrived to torch it ...
He’s the owner of Berkeley plantation in Charles City County ... Mac credits Grace with restoring Berkeley’s interior and filling it with antiques and paintings. She enjoyed the challenge.
A place of beginnings and endings, Berkeley Plantation, about halfway between Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., is part of your life. Each time you celebrate Thanksgiving, there’s an echo of the ...
The hilltop mansion at Berkeley Plantation has a sweeping view of American history, if you’re still into that sort of thing. English colonists settled the land along the James River a year ...
Nine settlers were slain at Berkeley Hundred, and outlying plantation sites were abandoned as colonists withdrew to safer, more secure locations. Over the centuries, that official Thanksgiving Day ...
“This was America’s first highway,” he said, referring to the river. Berkeley Plantation is his life’s work — and his family’s legacy. “It is a labor of love,” said Jamieso ...
The truth is people should be thinking local on Thanksgiving. Along Route 5 in Charles City County sits Berkeley Plantation. Four hundred years ago, before Berkeley existed, there was a ...