Carter's Grove Plantation
- Also Known As: Martin's Hundred
- Address: Carter's Grove
- Vicinity: S of US 60 on the James River
- Neighborhood of Kingsmill-Grove in Williamsburg
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1750/04/15 | Nathaniel Burwell | Born | Nathaniel Burwell is born at Carter's Grove plantation in James City County to Carter Burwell and Lucy Grymes Burwell. | |||
1751/06/00 | David Minitree | Builder | Master builder David Minitree is brought from England by Carter Burwell to construct Carter's Grove. | |||
1755/00/00 | Richard Taliaferro | Probable Architect | Carter's Grove mansion, a masterpiece of early Georgian architecture in Virginia, is built for Carter Burwell, 1751-1755, employing carpenter John Wheatley and artisan Richard Baylis to complete the interiors. | |||
1755/00/00 | Carter Burwell | Home | Carter's Grove mansion, a masterpiece of early Georgian architecture in Virginia, is built for Carter Burwell, 1751-1755, employing carpenter John Wheatley and artisan Richard Baylis to complete the interiors. | |||
1755/00/00 | Mary Burwell Berkeley | Home | Carter's Grove mansion, a masterpiece of early Georgian architecture in Virginia, is built for Carter Burwell, 1751-1755, employing carpenter John Wheatley and artisan Richard Baylis to complete the interiors. | |||
1756/10/26 | Carter Burwell | Died | Carter Burwell dies before 26 October 1756, when his will is proved in the General Court. He is probably buried in the graveyard at Carter's Grove. | |||
1771/00/00 | Nathaniel Burwell | Home | Having come of age, Nathaniel Burwell inherits control of a large landed estate in Tidewater Virginia and in the lower Shenandoah Valley, including his father's Carter's Grove plantation and mansion in James City County. | |||
1969/00/00 | Rockefeller Foundation | Benefactor | Carter's Grove, after multiple owners and the death of the last resident in 1964, is gifted to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation by the Rockefeller Foundation. | |||
2014/00/00 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation sells Carter's Grove to Samuel M Mencoff. The 476 acre property includes a 18,700-square-foot mansion, caretaker's house, horse stable and museum that use to have artifacts found on the site. | |||||
2015/00/00 | Kirby Perkins Construction of Newport RI, begins a three-year meticulous restoration of Carter's Grove plantation. |
Particulars for Carter's Grove Plantation: | |
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Architectural Style | American Colonial |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Level of Significance | National |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Secondary structure |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Other Description | Southern colonial |
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