Santee in Caroline County, associated with the prominent Fitzhugh and Gordon families for over 250 years, is an outstanding example of a formal plantation of early-nineteenth-century Tidewater Virginia. The handsome house, its early kitchen, stable, and slave house, and the verdant park present a remarkable glimpse of antebellum life along the Rappahannock River at its most prosperous. - NRHP Registration, 5 July 1979