The Historic Smithfield Plantation Home is located west of the Virginia Tech Duck Pond. Built between 1772 and 1774, it was once the home of the Preston family and now hosts events such as weddings ...
CHARLES CITY — Around 1776, Judge John Tyler Sr. built a 1½-story wood-frame plantation home near the James River, where famous friends such as Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry occasionally stopped ...
As a child growing up in South Louisiana, plantation home tours comprised family outings and school field trips. The tours were romanticized narratives of the Antebellum South, with visions of ...