Berkeley Plantation
12602 Harrison Landing Road, Charles City, VA, USA
Virginia, USA
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EST. 1619
EST. 1619
November 2, 1773
Arnold, Benedict
Harrison, Benjamin V
Harrison, William Henry
Washington, George
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Berkeley Plantation.
The original 1726 Georgian mansion survives within a privately owned James River plantation landscape and operates as a historic museum. Furnished rooms, terraced gardens, dependencies, archaeological resources, monuments, burial areas, and working grounds preserve the estate’s architecture while interpreting generations of free and enslaved residents.
About Berkeley Plantation
Using bricks fired on the Berkeley plantation, Benjamin Harrison IV built a Georgian-style two-story brick mansion on a hill overlooking the James River in 1726. Harrison's son, Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence and a governor of Virginia, was born at Berkeley Plantation, as was his son William Henry Harrison, a war hero in the Battle of Tippecanoe, governor of Indiana Territory, and ninth president of the United States.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Berkeley Plantation
The first 10 U.S. presidents were on the property enjoying the hospitality: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison (Who was born on the property), and John Tyler.
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