Enjoy a variety of historic homes, plantations, churches

Enjoy a variety of historic homes, plantations, churches, and
gardens in one of America's oldest communities. Proceeds benefit
the Church and area outreach programs, including Meals on
Wheels and No Greater Love.
September 28, 2013
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Westover Parish Church
6401 John Tyler Highway
Charles City, VA 23030
804-829-2488
www.westoverepiscopalchurch.org
Westover Episcopal Church
6401 John Tyler Memorial Hwy.
Charles City, VA 23030
804-829-2488
Dear Friends,
Welcome to Westover Episcopal Church and the Annual Autumn
Pilgrimage and House Tour. We are delighted to welcome those who
may have shared this journey with us before, and those who are
joining us for the first time.
This has been an exciting time and challenging year for Westover
Church. This year we are celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the
founding of the Parish in 1613. Our presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Dr
Katherine Jefferts Schori was with us on Pentecost in May to highlight
our 400 years of history, heritage, and proclaiming the Good News in
Charles City County. While she was here, she baptized a set of triplets
as the newest members of our parish.
This has also been a year of transition as the parish engaged is a
search for the next rector of Westover Church. We are pleased to note
that the Very Rev. April Greenwood has been called to serve as the
Rector of Westover Church and this Pilgrimage will be her first public
event as Rector. As you travel on the Pilgrimage this year, we invite
you to greet April and welcome her to the Charles City County
community.
Continuing its long history and heritage, Westover Church continues its
active ministry to its congregation, and to the wider Charles City
community. We serve as the distribution center for Meals on Wheels,
host regular meetings of AA, as well as reaching out beyond our parish
to serve those in need.
The Church is open as part of the Pilgrimage and includes an exhibit of
the historic silver used by the Church. If you are searching for an
active, faith community for worship and ministry, we hope you will
return and join us.
May God richly bless you,
Bruce A. Gray
The Rev. Dr. Bruce A Gray, Interim Rector
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Table of Contents
Schedule of Events..........................................................................4
Raffle Information...........................................................................5
Introduction
The Tour.........................................................................................6
Description of houses on tour
Berkeley Plantation........................................................................7
Evelynton Plantation......................................................................9
Green Oak Farm...........................................................................10
Milton...........................................................................................11
Sherwood Forest Plantation.........................................................12
Upper Weyanoak.........................................................................13
Westover Church.........................................................................14
Map........................................................................................16-17
Westover Plantation................................................................18-19
Sponsors and Advertisers.......................................................20-32
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Schedule of Events
9:00 – 5:00 House and Garden Tours. Tour at your own pace. The last
tour at Sherwood Forest begins at 4:30 p.m.
Throughout the day at Westover Church, free and open to the
public: Tours of historic Westover Church and its two rare colonial
communion sets.
10:00 Presentation of the fox hounds at Sherwood Forest Plantation
by the Princess Anne Hunt Club
12:00-12:30 Charles City Spiritual Ensemble (Singing Negro Sprituals)
in the Church
12:30-3:30 Hessians Regiment Von Huyn at Westover Plantation
Lunch options:
11:30-1:30 Brunswick stew served at Westover Church or Barbeque
Cookies, cakes, jams & pickles for sale by Women of Methodist
Church
Reserved box lunch pick-up:
Charles City Tavern (804/829-5004)
9220 John Tyler Memorial Highway
Cul's Courthouse Grille (804/829-2205)
10801 Courthouse Road
3:00-4:00 Lemonade and cookies served at Evelynton
5:00 Tours end
6:30 Raffle drawing at Nance-Major House
(10800 Courthouse Rd)
Smoking and photography are prohibited inside the houses.
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Raffle
Win one of these great prizes!
$2 per ticket or three tickets for $5
Tickets will be available at Westover Church, Evelynton,
Sherwood & Westover plantations.
A handsome pair of heavy brass candlesticks made by
Sedgefield/Adams (retail $90 ea.) and an occasional table of
curly maple, called a porringer, donated by Carolina Furniture,
Williamsburg, VA. Special thanks to Sharon Christian
for these items.
A beautiful afghan of ivory Peruvian highland wool knitted
by parishioner, Peggy Christian.
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The Tour
Charles City County lies north of the James River between Richmond and
Williamsburg along Route 5, a National Scenic Byway, part of which was once
known as The Great Road. The eastern end of it follows part of an ancient
Algonquin Trail that began near Jamestown. It is considered the earliestdeveloped English thoroughfare in Virginia. The road was an important
thoroughfare used to transport goods and forward communications between
settlements in the earliest days of settlement.
In this community, rich in early American history and architecture, you are
invited to visit private plantations and gardens from centuries past and also
houses from the present. From imposing 18th century plantation houses to
smaller domestic structures, churches and church glebes, the county offers a
stunning breadth of well-preserved American Colonial architecture that was part
of a network of structures along both sides of the river from Williamsburg, the
colonial capital after 1699, to Richmond, the current capital located at the falls
of the James. Continually changing views of the James River from many of the
houses lend a clear perspective of its importance and majesty from earliest
colonial times to the present. A tour of truly notable architecture in Charles City
should include visits to at least three of its 18th century plantations, Berkeley,
Westover and Sherwood Forest. There, the ancestral homes of past presidents
and notables of Virginia society preserve glimpses of the past that bring to life
events and ideas that shaped our country in its earliest days. During the Civil
War, Union troops occupied Berkeley and Westover, among other sites in the
county. Abraham Lincoln twice visited there in the summer of 1862 to confer
with Gen. George B. McClellan. Not surprisingly, the War caused considerable
damage to many houses and their occupants. The Union Army camped in the
front fields of Green Oak Farm in 1864, where they ransacked the farm of live
stock and food reserves.
In addition to these prominent houses are numerous examples in the
county that exemplify on a smaller scale 17th, 18th and 19th century
architecture, as well as vernacular building methods. Green Oak Farm, built in
1657, includes the original farmhouse and three 18th century granaries (barns),
recently restored. They are the only assemblage of their type recorded in
eastern Virginia. The core of Upper Weyanoke is a fortified brick farmhouse
built in the 17th century, with 19th, 20th and 21st century additions. It is a
perfect compendium of how changing lives and expectations are reflected in
architecture. Evelynton, built in 1937, is an elegant Georgian brick house
designed by the noted architect, Duncan Lee. All the houses on tour tell a
compelling story through architecture about the lives of those who lived there,
and the lives of those now living there.
In the tour booklet, the houses are described alphabetically. The map in
the center of the booklet clearly shows house locations.
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Berkeley Plantation (1726)
12602 Harrison Landing Road
National Historic Landmark
Virginia Historic Landmark
One of the first great estates in America, Berkeley comprises about 1,000 acres
on the north banks of the James River. Originally, the property was known as
Berkeley Hundred, named after the Berkeley Company of England. There, in
December 1619, a group of 38 English settlers arrived to make a new
settlement roughly 20 miles upstream from the first permanent settlement at
Jamestown (1607). The group's charter required that the day of arrival be
observed yearly as a “day of thanksgiving” to God. Annually, that first
thanksgiving is still celebrated, and pre-dates the thanksgiving at Plymouth
Colony in Massachusetts.
Eventually, the site became Berkeley Plantation and was long the
traditional home of the prominent Harrison family of Virginia. Using bricks fired
on the plantation, Benjamin Harrison IV built an elegant Georgian structure in
1726 that is believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia.
Berkeley is the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the Declaration of
Independence and three times governor of Virginia. The estate also is the
birthplace of William Henry Harrison, a war hero in the Battle of Tippecanoe,
governor of Indiana Territory, and ninth president of the United States; and it is
the ancestral home of his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third
president of the United States.
The main house, sited at the top of a hill, is the centerpiece of ten acres of
formal gardens and parterres that slope gently to the river. Boxwood allees
surround and extend from the house.
In addition to the first official Thanksgiving in America, Berkeley was the
site of the first bourbon whiskey distilled in the colony in 1621 by George
Thorpe, an Episcopal priest. The Army bugle call, “Taps,” was composed at
Harrison's Landing, the plantation's old wharf, by General Daniel Butterfield and
first played by his bugler, Oliver W. Norton.
After the Civil War, the plantation passed through several owners' hands
and fell into disrepair. In 1907, Berkeley was bought by John Jamieson, a
Scotsman who had served as a drummer boy in the Union army during the Civil
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War. His son, Malcolm Jamieson, and wife, Grace Eggleston, restored the
deteriorating manor and filled it with appropriate period antiques and paintings.
The five terraces of gardens also were restored. Today, third, fourth and fifth
generation Jamiesons enjoy the stewardship of this property.
The house and grounds are open to the public daily, 9 to 5. Special tours,
corporate events and garden weddings can be arranged by calling 1-888-4666018 or consult their website: www.berkeleyplantation.com.
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Evelynton Plantation (1937)
6701 John Tyler Memorial Highway
Charles City, VA 23030
This Georgian Revival manor house was built in 1937 on the site of a
previous structure which burned in 1862. Originally, the plantation was part of
William Byrd II's vast acreage of Westover and was named for his daughter,
Evelyn. It was home to the Ruffin family from 1847 to 2008. The Ruffin
partriarch, Edmund Ruffin, fired the first shot of the American Civil War at Fort
Sumter, South Carolina. His later agricultural contributions, from scientific soil
testing to the publication of “The Farmer's Register,” rescued 19 th century
Virginia from a declining agricultural economy and earned him the title “Father
of American Agronomy.”
Evelynton was the site of fierce Civil War skirmishes in 1862 at the end of
General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. J.E.B.Stuart led the Southern
offensive in the Battle of Evelynton Heights. The original house and
dependencies were burned during that conflict.
The current structure was erected 75 years later, in 1937, by Edmund
Ruffin's great-grandson, John Augustine Ruffin, Jr. and his wife, Mary Ball
Saunders. They employed a well-known architect, Duncan Lee, who had
completed a brilliant restoration of Carter's Grove in Williamsburg, as well as
many elegant houses in Richmond, to design and construct an imposing country
manor house with high ceilings and complex architectural detail.
In 2008, the current owners, John and Jeanine Hinson, bought the property
and made extensive renovations to the house and grounds. Many of the
furnishings and paintings came from Carter's Grove. New York designer and
Richmond native, Ralph Harvard, assisted in creating a historically correct color
palette for the house. Greenway Interiors helped to complete the interior
details.
The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a
designated Virginia Historic Landmark.
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Green Oak Farm
11400 Green Oak Road
Charles City, VA 23030
Green Oak Farm is the only known property in Virginia that has been
passed to future generations through will since the original patent in 1657. It
has never been deeded. The property, which currently includes 660 acres, has
been in the Christian family since 1657; thus, the house possibly is the oldest
structure in America still held by the same family throughout its history. Other
original buildings include a remarkable trio of 18th century barns, a smoke
house, a milk house and an office, now a guest cottage with a 1950's addition.
A summer kitchen to the right of the main house was destroyed by fire.
Antiques and artifacts from a long span of history can be seen in the house and
milk house. These include a prehistoric whale vertebra found on the property
near creeks flowing to the Chickahominy River. Personal possessions from
many generations of Christians, along with relics from the Civil War, are
displayed throughout the house.
The Christians came from the Isle of Man. For centuries they were
dempsters, or judges, of that island, where the earliest form of parliamentary
government was formed. Thomas Christian was the progenitor of the Virginia
family. Christians at one time owned all the land on both sides of the
Chickahominy River, “from Windsor Shades to Squirrel Park,” approximately
twelve square miles.
The main dwelling is one of the oldest houses in this area and is in
excellent condition. (The Gault House in Williamsburg is thought to be older).
Nails and chimney bricks were brought over from England and paid for with
tobacco. The unique gable ends of the main house on the original southeast
and southwest corners are purposely curved, like the hull of a ship, possibly an
architectural nod to the earliest Christians' sea-going roots on the Isle of Man.
The farm always has been known for its hospitality, which continues to this day
as a country retreat since the early 1900's.
Three late 18th century granaries (barns) are of special note. They form the
only assemblage of that type recorded in eastern Virginia. Few farm buildings
built before the Civil War survive anywhere in the state; many counties have
fewer than five extant examples. Green Oak Farm is remarkable for having
such early agricultural buildings that are still functioning structures.
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Milton on the James
(1845, with 20th and 21st century additions)
13202 Tyler's Mill Road
Charles City, VA 23030
The approach to Milton is the centuries-old Powhatan Indian Trail. As the
pavement ends, a circa 1630 carriage drive begins, unpaved and unchanged in
383 years. The plantation's name is derived from the circa 1624 King’s patent
to an English Cavalier, John Milton. It is thought that he built Milton's 17th
century house, destroyed by hurricane in 1838. Milton was an extensive
working plantation. Its quarters, stables and dependencies disappeared
between 1861-1864. A study from the Department of Archaeology at The
College of William and Mary states, “The original part of the existing (1843)
house may have been built during the third quarter of the 18th century.” The
current owners think most portions of the house date much later. They have
spent several years renovating the house. From 1907-1914, Dr. Lyon Gardiner
Tyler, who was the son of 10th United States President, John Tyler, and also
was President of the College of William Mary, lived at Milton during the summer
months.
Architectural details in the hall and on window pilasters are derived from
designs of 19th century New York architect, Minard La Fever. The rich green
tone of the dining room is background for the Rose Medallion china, which
belonged to the current Mrs. Tyler's mother. In the family room is President
Tyler's early Canton china, housed in a sideboard-cabinet from New Orleans
which was in the White House of the Confederacy while C.S.A. President
Jefferson Davis resided there. On the sun-porch are six examples of the famous
Pottersville alkaline-glazed pottery from Mulberry Hill Plantation in Edgefield,
South Carolina.
Many items at Milton reflect the family's participation in equestrian
activities, which include polo, fox hunting, and flat racing. The Kennels of
Princess Ann Hunt (recognized in 1927) are housed on Sherwood Forest and
Milton. All of the James River Plantations have been opened for fox hunting.
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Sherwood Forest Plantation
(circa 1730)
14501 John Tyler Memorial Highway
Sherwood Forest Plantation, home of the 10th United States President, John
Tyler (1841-1845), is America's longest frame house, one foot longer than a
football field. Sherwood Forest is the only 19 th century presidential house that is
privately owned and maintained by the descendants of a president. The Big
House was begun 1680-1720 and in 1845 was expanded to 301 feet by
President Tyler, when he added the 68-foot ballroom. In 1845, Greek revival
designs were added from plates 9 and 10 from The Beauties of Modern
Architecture, written by New York architect Minard La Fever. Sherwood Forest is
only one room deep throughout its length and contains 28 rooms and seven
sets of stairs.
The Big House has furniture, family portraits and china of President Tyler
and his wife, Julia Gardiner of Gardiner's Island, New York, in addition to family
pieces from Mulberry Hill Plantation, the South Carolina family home of the
present Mrs. Harrison Ruffin Tyler. The Gray Lady is a ghost who has been
heard rocking in the Gray Room for more than 200 years. In 1845, A. J.
Downing, noted New York landscape architect, designed the 28 acres of
woodland parks and terraced lawn surrounding the Big House. Wounded Union
soldiers were brought to the terraces to receive medical treatment. Downing's
designs included stables and ten dependencies dating from 1680 to 1810. The
Sherwood Forest Yard is recognized as one of the most complete early
plantation Yards in America.
Today, the 4,500 acres of Sherwood Forest Plantation are under the
proprietorship of President Tyler's grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, and his son,
William Bouknight Tyler. Sherwood Forest is considered the most extensive
family-owned plantation on the north side of the James River between
Richmond and Williamsburg. The plantation borders the James River for four
miles. Preservation is foremost for stewardship of the Tyler family property.
Sherwood Forest works with management authorities to ensure best practices
of agriculture, timber and wildlife endeavors.
Sherwood Forest has the rare honor of being named a National Historic
Landmark, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a Virginia
Historic Landmark.
The grounds are open to the public daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tours of the Big
House are by appointment (804-829-5377).
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Upper Weyanoke
(circa 1620)
13901 Weyanoke Road
Charles City, VA 23030
Dramatically situated on the banks of the James, the center core of Upper
Weyanoke is believed to have been erected in the 17th century as a stronghold
against Indian assault following the massacres of 1622 (347 colonists were
killed, including five on the Weyanoke property). Although no one knows how
many garrison houses may have been built after the massacres, Upper
Weyanoke is the only one that remains. The date of construction has been
impossible to authenticate, but this small dwelling, laid in Flemish bond, is
believed to be one of the oldest houses on the James River.
It is documented that title to Upper Weyanoke passed in about 1704 from
David Jones to James Minge, son of James Minge, Clerk of the House of
Burgesses. It remained in the Minge family until 1849, when the property was
conveyed to Major Robert Douthat. It then passed to his brother, Fielding Lewis
Douthat, who lived at Upper Weyanoke with his wife, Mary Willis Marshall,
granddaughter of Chief Justice John Marshall. Due to the small size of the
garrison house, the Douthats lived in a larger house on the property (still
visible), built around 1850, after an earlier manor house on the same site was
burned. In 1942, the property was purchased by Henry and Evelyn Bahnsen of
New Jersey, who used Upper Weyanoke as a summer retreat. Eventually, they
enlarged the small garrison house to include a glassed-in loggia on the east
side and the angled wing with two bedrooms on the west side. They also built
the swimming pool and bathhouse. Their daughter, Louise Moon, and her family
often spent weekends there until the property sold again in 2010 to Lawrence
and Freddie Gray. Lawrence is the grandson of Lawrence Lewis, Jr., whose
family has owned the surrounding properties, including Weyanoke, since the
1940's.
In the past three years, the Grays have completely renovated the old
house and pool house and just completed a new two-story wing on the south
side of the property. Both the new wing and the new pool house were designed
by Richmond architect, Charles Aquino, and built by Zepp Construction. While
the addition was designed to suit the needs of a modern family, the Grays,
together with Aquino and Zepp, worked thoughtfully to pay homage to the
historical integrity of Upper Weyanoke.
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Westover Parish Church
(1630)
6401 John Tyler Memorial Highway
Westover Parish was established in 1613 in close proximity to the original
settlement at Jamestown. Following the 1724 merging of all or part of the
Parishes of Weyanoke, Wallingford and Wilmington into Westover Parish,
Westover Parish became and remains today co-terminus with Charles City
County. The predecessor of the existing Westover Church, probably a wooden
clapboard structure, was constructed between 1630 and 1637 on Westover
Plantation. About 1730, the original structure was dismantled and reconstructed
in brick at its present site overlooking Herring Creek, about one and one-half
miles north of the Westover mansion. Land for the second church was given by
William Byrd II.
Over the years since the present Westover Church was built, it has
sustained many economic, physical and congregational changes. The
Revolutionary War in 1776 ended support by public taxation for the Episcopal
Church. In 1784, the church was disestablished. These precedents, and the War
of 1812, created a widespread prejudice against the Church as an English
Royalist institution and contributed to a general decline of interest in religion.
The result was a period when the churches 'mouldered away,” bereft of
ministers, congregations, parish lands, and financial support. For almost thirty
years after 1803, services of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia lapsed
completely in Charles City County. Westover Church lay abandoned, desecrated
by misuse as a barn during part of that time.
About 1833, religious services were revived when the Reverend Parke
Farley Berkeley was sent to the county as a missionary. At this time the Church
structure was repaired and restored, principally through the efforts of the
families of Berkeley and Shirley, the Harrisons and the Carters.
During the Civil War, Westover Church was badly damaged by federal
troops, who removed pews, windows, and slate flooring as they gathered
materials for construction of winter quarters at Berkeley. The gutted building
was then used as a stable for Union forces. The Church remained vacant for a
time following the war, as parishioners raised funds for reconstruction.
Westover Church finally was restored to service in September 1867, and has
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been faithfully supported ever since. Through the centuries, farmers, plantation
owners, slaves and Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Harrison, Tyler,
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, have worshiped here.
Two silver communion sets are used at Westover Parish Church. The older
set, handsomely designed with gadrooning, scalloped matting and punch
decoration, includes a chalice (11-5/8 inches high) and paten (7-3/4 inches
diameter; 2-1/4 inches high), both marked London, 1694-95, and both
inscribed with a cipher of the donor's initials, “SABE.” The cover of the chalice is
inscribed “Sarah Braine” to commemorate the donor. A large matching
baptismal basin (19-1/4 inches diameter) originally was part of the set. It was
sold in 1884 to help ease dire financial conditions at Westover. The bowl was
given as an “Easter Gift to St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia. By Edmund A.
Saunders and Richard L. Brown in behalf of their little daughters, Mamie, and
Bessie, 1886.” The Upper Church of Westover Parish always has used the
Braine set.
Sarah Braine was a notorious figure, a sympathizer with Bacon's Rebellion
and the only woman excepted from the free and general pardon granted by the
General Assembly in 1677. She was married four times, to Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas Stegge (an uncle of William Byrd II), George Harris, Thomas Grendon,
and Edward Braine, a wealthy London merchant.
The other chalice (10-3/4 inches high) and paten (7-7/8 inches diameter;
1-3/4 inches high), both bearing the London mark of 1731-32, are engraved
with the sacred HIS monogram in a sunburst, a common motif in 18th century
church silver. Both pieces are inscribed “The Gift of Coll: Fran: Lightfoot Anno
1727.” “Westover Parish Church” was added later. The Lightfoot set was used
until 1920 in Lower Westover Parish, first at Wallingford Church and then at
Mapsico Church, neither of which now stands.
During the War Between the States, the Lightfoot silver was buried under a
barn for safekeeping from the approaching federal troops. It was found and
taken for use by a Union Captain for drinking his whiskey. When an old
gentleman of the county learned of this, he came to U.S. Gen. Carr at Fort
Pocahontas on Wilson's Landing in May 1865, asking that the silver be restored
to Westover Parish. Gen. Carr did so, much to the relief and gratitude of the
petitioner.
Westover Church has a congregation active in outreach programs. It is a
site for delivery of Meals on Wheels, contributes annually to No Greater Love
with funds and man-power to construct wheelchair ramps for those in need,
gives annual Thanksgiving and Christmas packages to needy county residents,
and contributes to the local food bank.
Westover Church is both a National Historic Landmark and a Virginia
Historic Landmark.
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Westover Plantation
(1730)
7000 Westover Road
Westover is considered one of the most perfect examples of Georgian
architecture in America. Its elegant yet simple form and proportions, combined
with a commanding setting overlooking the James River, convey the essence of
18th century artistic ideals adapted to a wealthy planter's style of living in
Colonial Virginia.
William Byrd II (died 1744), an enormously wealthy landowner and founder
of the cities of Richmond and Petersburg, designed the estate on his return
from England in the early 18th century. It is now thought that the main house
was built around 1750 by his son, William Byrd III. Originally, the main house
had matching wings unattached to the center section. During the Civil War, the
east wing -- a library that once contained Byrd's 4,000 volume collection -- was
destroyed accidentally by Confederate shelling from across the river. It was
rebuilt around 1900, but does not match the original. At the same time, the
wings were connected to the center section.
The main doorway on the river side is considered the most copied doorway
in this country. Both the north and south doorways are of Portland stone, which
came from England as ship's ballast. The original wrought-iron gate, sent from
England in 1709 and bearing William Byrd's monogram in the center, stands on
the north or land side of the house. Together with two smaller gates flanking
the south lawn, these comprise the finest examples of 18 th century gates in this
country. Lead eagles on the main gateposts are a play on the name “Byrd.” The
iron fence, or clairvoyée, has supporting columns topped by stone forms
symbolizing such virtues as hospitality, perseverance, and learning.
To the west of the house is a walled garden divided into four large squares,
two of which are further divided into eight smaller squares. The tomb of William
Byrd II in the center of the garden is marked by an obelisk with an epitaph
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describing the highly educated, accomplished individual whose influence was
felt throughout Virginia and beyond. East of the house is the ice-house and a
small structure containing a dry well supposed to connect with passageways
which led under the main house to the river, thought to be an escape route
from Indians. The main house, west wing, necessary house and gate house are
18th century structures. A separate kitchen west of the main house was built
around 1830.
The house is furnished with 16th, 17th and 18th century antiques, mostly
from continental Europe. The lawns on both sides of the house are remarkable
for their century-old tulip poplars, ancient beeches, and numerous trees planted
by historic visitors.
As early as 1616, John Rolfe wrote about West, now Westover, and Shirley
Hundreds. The property originally was granted to the West family, but the
settlement was abandoned after the Indian massacre of 1622. Records from
1637 show that the Colonial Governor patented 2,000 acres of the plantation
called “Westover” to Captain Thomas Pawlett, who thus became the plantation's
first owner. After passing through two other owners, Theodoric Bland sold
Westover to William Byrd I in 1688.
The Crane-Fisher-Erda family has occupied the house since 1921 – now
five generations strong. Andrea Erda, daughter of Fred and Muschi Fisher, and
her husband, Rob, and their three children, moved into the main house in late
2012.
Weddings and other special events at Westover may be arranged by calling
804-829-2882 or visiting www.westover-plantation.com.
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The Tyler Family Wishes
Westover Church a
Successful Autumn Pilgrimage
Providing Professional Staging Services
Kay Tyler (804) 240-4828
[email protected]
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K-Ann and I extend our blessings
and best wishes
to our friends at Westover Parish,
to new Rector, The Very Rev. April
Greenwood.
and for all who travel on this year’s
Autumn Pilgrimage.
The Rev. Dr., Bruce A. Gray,
Interim Rector
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