Berkeley Plantation
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Berkeley Plantation, one of the first plantations in America, comprises about 1,000 acres on the banks of the James River on State Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. Berkeley Plantation was ori
House from the South (river) side
Berkeley Plantation or Harrison's Landing Marker
Shrine of the first U.S. Thanksgiving in 1619 at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia
Colonels Albert V. Colburn, Delos B. Sackett and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862
Harrison family of Virginia
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The Harrisons of Virginia have shared in the 250-year history of United States politics and its governance, and have also worked in religious ministries, beginning in the Colony of Virginia. Family me
Berkeley Plantation
…Virginia. Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred, named after the Berkeley Company of England. In 1726, it became the home of the Harrison family of Virginia, after Benjamin Harrison IV located there and built one of the first three-story brick mansions in Virginia. It is the ancestral home of two presidents…
The "Durham arms" of the Shenandoah Valley Harrisons
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1819). Benjamin Harrison V is seated front at the table far left.
"The Oaks" – home of Edmund Harrison in Amelia, VA