Shirley Plantation
501 Shirley Plantation Road, Charles City, VA, USA
Virginia, USA
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EST. 1723
EST. 1723
1773
Carter, Charles
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Shirley Plantation.
The original eighteenth-century Great House and numerous dependencies survive within a privately owned, working James River estate. Preserved architecture, furnished interiors, gardens, archaeological resources, family cemetery, farm buildings, and agricultural landscape present the long history of the Hill-Carter family and enslaved community.
About Shirley Plantation
The construction of the present mansion and outbuildings began c. 1723. The mansion, called the "Great House", was completed in 1738 and was located close to the original house built by the Hills that became known as the "Hill House". In 1868, owners signed a contract to demolish the Hill House and use its salvaged building materials to construct the mansion at Upper Shirley.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Shirley Plantation
At least eight generations of the Hill Carter family have occupied the house since 1738. Anne Hill Carter was born at Shirley, who on June 18, 1793, married Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee in the mansion's parlor. The couple were later parents of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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