The Washington Post article “Va. plantation’s heir angers neighbors” by Annie Gowen, which was carried last month in the Daily Press, entitled “Fighting to maintain a family legacy, Shirley Plantation ...

CHARLES CITY — Descendants of a Vermont sheriff born at Shirley Plantation held their family reunion this year in Charles City County, where they participated in a remembrance ceremony for the North’s ...

CHARLES CITY - As soon as you turn off State Route 156 onto the mile-and-a-half-long unpaved driveway, Shirley Plantation starts taking you into another time. All this month, that time is the Ice Age.

Officials at the mansion hope a fresh focus on archaeology and slavery will help boost tourism. A sign stands in front of a large covered hole near the main house at Shirley Plantation, the mansion ...

You approach Virginia’s oldest plantation along a manicured path that wends its way past a pair of brick storage barns and a matched set of trim, two-story buildings that together form what the ...

Retired Charles City County High School teacher Albert Ghee’s grandmother polished silver at Shirley Plantation in the early 1900s. Ghee and his family have visited the historic plantation — where ...

To see Charles Hill Carter Jr. entertaining guests on the lawn at historic stately Shirley Plantation on the James River was to see a Tidewater gentleman extending gracious hospitality at home.