Berkeley Plantation, one of the first plantations in America, comprises about on the banks of the

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on State Route 5 in

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. Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred, named after the Berkeley Company of England. In 1726, it became the home of the

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, after Benjamin Harrison IV located there and built one of the first three-story brick

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. It is the ancestral home of two

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, who was born there in 1773 and his grandson

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. an
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/ref> It is now a museum property, open to the public. Among the many American "firsts" that occurred at Berkeley Plantation are: * In 1619 settlers celebrated the first annual

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celebration after landing at Berkeley Hundred. * In 1862 the Army bugle call " Taps" was first played, by bugler Oliver W. Norton; the melody was written at Harrison's Landing, the plantation's old wharf, by Norton and General

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.Roberts, Bruce (1990)
''Plantation Homes of the James River''
pp. 32–35. The University of North Carolina Press.

History

The Berkeley Hundred was created through a

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in 1618 of the

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to Sir William Throckmorton, Sir

George Yeardley Sir George Yeardley () was a Planter class, planter and colonial governor of the colony of Virginia. He was also among the first slaveowners in Colonial history of the United States, Colonial America. A survivor of the Virginia Company of London's ...

, George Thorpe, Richard Beverley, and John Smith (or Smyth) (1567–1641) of Nibley, a parish in the

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. Smyth was also the historian of the Berkeley group, collecting over 60 documents relating to the settlement of Virginia between 1613 and 1634 which have survived to modern times. It consisted of about on the north bank of the

near Herring Creek in an area then known as Charles Cittie (sic). It was named for one of the original founders, Richard Berkeley, a member of the

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of Gloucestershire, England. It was about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the

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was established on May 14, 1607. The Berkeley Hundred was the next plantation down river from the

Shirley Plantation Shirley Plantation is an Estate (house), estate on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located on scenic byway State Route 5 (Virginia), State Route 5, between Richmond, Virginia, Richmond and Williamsburg, ...

. In 1619, the ship ''Margaret'' of

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sailed for Virginia under Captain John Woodliffe and brought thirty-eight settlers to the new Town and Hundred of Berkeley. The Margaret landed her passengers at Berkeley Hundred on December 4, 1619. The group's

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charter required that the day of arrival be observed as a day of

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to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodlief held a service pursuant to the charter which specified, "Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.". Because of this, the Berkeley Plantation had one of the first recorded celebrations of Thanksgiving in the United States, establishing the tradition two years and 17 days before the Pilgrims arrived aboard the ''

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'' at

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to establish their Thanksgiving Day in 1621. On March 22, 1622,

Opchanacanough Opechancanough ( ; – ) was a sachem (or paramount chief) of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death. He had been a leader in the confederacy formed by his older brother Powhatan, from whom he inherited ...

, head of the

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, began the

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with a coordinated series of attacks against English settlements along the James River, known in English histories as the

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. Nine colonists were killed at Berkeley. The assault took a heavier toll elsewhere, killing about a third of all the colonists, and virtually wiping out Wolstenholme Towne on

Martin's Hundred Martin's Hundred was an early 17th-century plantation located along about of the north shore of the James River in the Virginia Colony east of Jamestown in the southeastern portion of present-day James City County, Virginia. The Martin's Hundred ...

and Sir

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's progressive development and new college at

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. Jamestown was spared through a timely warning and became the refuge for many survivors who abandoned outlying settlements. A myth about the March 22 date was that it occurred on Good Friday. This is incorrect. In 1634, Charles Cittie became part of the first eight

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, as

Charles City County Charles City County is a county located in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated southeast of Richmond and west of Jamestown. It is bounded on the south by the James River and on the east by the Chickahominy River. The a ...

, one of the oldest in the

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, and is located along

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, which runs parallel to the river's northern borders past sites of many of the James River Plantations between the colonial capital city of

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(now the site of

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) and the capital of the

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. In 1636 William Tucker, Maurice Thompson, George Thompson, William Harris, Thomas Deacon, James Stone, Cornelius Lloyd of London, merchants and Jeremiah Blackman of London, mariner, and their associates and company patented the 8,000 acres known as Berkeley Hundred. After several decades, the site of Berkeley Hundred became the property of

Theodorick Bland of Westover Theodorick Bland (January 16, 1629 – April 23, 1671), also known as Theodorick Bland of Westover, was a planter, merchant and politician in colonial Virginia who served as Speaker of the House of Burgesses, as well as in both houses of the Vir ...

. A portion of the Berkeley Hundred patent was purchased from descendant Giles Bland by Benjamin Harrison III. His son Benjamin Harrison IV built the three-story brick mansion that became the seat of the

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, one of the

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Using bricks fired on the Berkeley plantation, Benjamin Harrison IV built a

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two-story brick mansion on a hill overlooking the

in 1726. Harrison's son,

Benjamin Harrison V Benjamin Harrison V (April 5, 1726April 24, 1791) was an American planter, merchant, and politician who served as a legislator in colonial Virginia, following his namesakes' tradition of public service. He was a signer of the Continental Asso ...

, a signer of the

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and a

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, was born at Berkeley Plantation, as was his son

, a war hero in the

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, governor of

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, and ninth

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. Berkeley would later earn a distinction shared only with

Peacefield Peacefield, also called Peace field or Old House, is a historic home formerly owned by the Adams family of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was the home of United States Founding Father and U.S. president John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams, an ...

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, as the ancestral home for two United States presidents, though this connection is tenuous, as William Henry Harrison's grandson, the 23rd president,

, was born and reared in

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, and his father,

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, was born in

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, while his father (William Henry Harrison) was the first territorial governor of the

. The first 10

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were all hosted by the Harrison family on this property at some point:

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John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825. During his long diploma ...

Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before Presidency of Andrew Jackson, his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses ...

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(who was born on the property), and

John Tyler John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president of the United States, vice president in 1841. He was elected ...

(who lived nearby) are all known to have visited Berkeley. By the time Benjamin Harrison VII inherited Berkeley in 1799, the land was worn out after more than two centuries of mono-culture tobacco and cotton crops and the plantation was drifting towards financial ruin. After 150 years of Harrison family ownership plantation was foreclosed on by a local bank and the family evicted. Benjamin Harrison VII was the last Harrison to own Berkeley. During the

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, Union troops occupied Berkeley Plantation, and President

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twice visited there in the summer of 1862 to confer with Gen.

George B. McClellan George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey and as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 186 ...

. The Harrisons were unable to regain possession of the

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

after the war, and it was rented out by the bank from time to time to tenant farmers and the mansion was eventually used as a barn, falling into such disrepair that it was uninhabitable. Also in 1862, amid fighting in the Civil War, the area was the scene of the creation and first bugle rendition of present-day " Taps".

Restoration

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, a lumber tycoon who as a youth had been at Berkeley as a drummer boy in McClellan's army, purchased the property in 1907. In 1925, his son Malcolm inherited the property, expending large sums of money to turn the ruined main house into a livable and stately home for himself and his bride Grace Eggleston. The project took over a decade and the mansion was finally occupied by the Jamisons in 1938. Berkeley Plantation house interior

The ground floor of the mansion was turned into a museum in the 1960s. Today the house attracts visitors from the United States and other parts of the world. The architecture is original, and the house has been filled with antique furniture and furnishings that date from the period when it was built. The grounds, too, have been restored, and cuttings from the boxwood gardens are available as living souvenirs for its visitors. Berkeley is still a working farm; corn,

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, wheat, tomatoes, and other vegetables are grown here. There is also a small family cemetery on the property. Among those buried here are Benjamin Harrison V, Grace Jamieson, and Malcolm Jamieson. Reconstructed slave quarters were built on the property in 2018 by the producers of ''Harriet'', a movie about

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that was filmed in part at the plantation. The original quarters were no longer extant at that point. Plantation owner Benjamin Harrison V held 110 people in slavery at the time of his death in 1791.

Exterior

The main house is the centerpiece of ten acres of formal gardens and

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s. The house is surrounded by

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hedges forming allées. Large pillars with decorative spires support large hinged gates. The house is constructed of red brick with thin mortar joints. The two-story building's main entrance is in the center of the house, with two symmetrical windows on either side and a central window directly above the door. These windows are double sashed with 12 panes per sash. An

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with

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moldings support the gabled roof, which is pierced by three

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windows and two large brick chimneys. The grounds include a two-story gabled guest house, with symmetrical one-story wings on each side. In 1862, during the

and while the Union

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was camped at Berkeley Plantation, Confederates under General J.E.B. Stuart shot a

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into the side of the house from the nearby

. The cannonball was never removed, and is still visible today. It is indicated with a small marker. File:Berkeley Plantation kitchen.jpg, Berkeley Plantation guest house File:Berkeley Plantation guest house.jpg, Berkeley Plantation guest house File:Cannon Ball at Berkeley.jpg, Side of the Guest House showing a 1862 cannonball from J.E.B. Stuart's Cavalry during the

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References

External links

Berkeley Plantation official websiteJames River Plantations, a National Park Service ''Discover Our Shared Heritage'' Travel ItineraryBerkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, VA
35 photos, 7 color transparencies, 16 measured drawings, 4 data pages, and 3 photo caption pages at

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History

Restoration

Exterior

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References

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