Ampthill Plantation was located in the Virginia Colony in Chesterfield County on the south bank of the

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about four miles south of the

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at modern-day

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. Built by

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about 1730, it was just upstream of Falling Creek. It was later owned by Colonel

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, who maintained a flour mill complex and iron forge at the nearby town of Warwick. Mary Randolph was born there in 1762.

House moved, property becomes industrial site

In 1929,

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, the manor house of Ampthill Plantation, was dismantled, moved to a site on Cary Street Road in the West End of Richmond, and reassembled where it sits today. Although it is not open to the public, Ampthill House is a noteworthy local landmark, and is marked by a Virginia Historical Marker. The former plantation property on the James River near Falling Creek is occupied by the Spruance Plant and related industrial complex of the

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