Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1618/00/00 | With a population of about 40 settlers of the Virginia Company of London, Wolstenholme Towne (Sir John Wolstenholme was an investor) is established as a fortified settlement about 7 miles downstream from Jamestown on a plantation named Martin's Hundred. | Settling the American Colonies | ||||
1622/03/22 | From the fall line of the James River to Hampton Roads, Powhatans burn and loot English settlements, killing an estimated 400 colonists. Martin's Hundred, the plantation hardest hit, lost more than 50, perhaps as many as 70. | Virginia Indians Massacre English Colonist, 1622 | ||||
1756/10/26 | Carter Burwell | Benefactor | Nathaniel Burwell inherits a 5,800-acre (2,347 ha) estate from his father Carter Burwell, of Carter's Grove, James City County. | |||
1756/10/26 | Nathaniel Burwell | Owner | Nathaniel Burwell inherits a 5,800-acre (2,347 ha) estate from his father Carter Burwell, of Carter's Grove, James City County. | |||
1792/00/00 | Nathaniel Burwell | Home | Carter Hall mansion is built for Nathaniel Burwell during 1792-1800. | |||
1813/09/12 | Edmund Jennings Randolph | Died | Burwell's cousin Edmund Randolph, who had been United States Attorney General and later Secretary of State under George Washington, and was invited to live with Colonel Burwell. He is buried nearby at the Burwell family cemetery adjacent to "Old Chapel". | |||
1815/00/00 | Dr William Thornton | Ascribed to Architect | Roman tonic portico added after George H Burwell (1799-1873), son of Nathaniel Burwell, inherited the estate in 1814. | |||
1862/10/00 | Hunter McGuire | Work | General Jackson permits his surgeon, Dr William McGuire, to perform a cataract operation on George Burwell on the portico. | |||
1862/10/00 | Stonewall Jackson establishes headquarters at Carter Hall. He declines George Burwell's invitation to stay in the house, camping instead with his men on the grounds. | |||||
1930/00/00 | Harrie T Lindeberg | Architect | Carter Hall is remodeled for its new owner, Gerard Lambert, under the direction of the fashionable New York architect, H T Lindeberg. The dining room is the only room to retain significant original fittings. | |||
1948/00/00 | Designed by landscape architect Wade Muldoon, a four-level terraced garden is installed at Carter Hall. |
Particulars for Carter Hall: | |
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Area of Significance | Agriculture |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Commerce |
Physiographic feature | Forest |
Architectural Style | Georgian Architecture |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Other Description | Late Georgian |
Area of Significance | Military |
Historic Use | Park |
Criteria | Person |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Secondary structure |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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