Ampthill (Chesterfield County, Virginia)
Coordinates: 37°27′1.9″N 77°26′27.5″W / 37.450528°N 77.440972°W
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Ampthill Plantation was located in the Virginia Colony in Chesterfield County on the south bank of the James River about four miles south of the head of navigation at modern-day Richmond, Virginia.[1] Built by Henry Cary, Jr. about 1730, it was just upstream of Falling Creek.[2] It was later owned by Colonel Archibald Cary, who maintained a flour mill complex and iron forge at the nearby town of Warwick. Mary Randolph was born there in 1762.[3]
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House moved, property becomes industrial site[]
In 1929, , 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.[4]
The former plantation property on the James River near Falling Creek is occupied by the Spruance Plant and related industrial complex of the DuPont Company.
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References[]
- ^ "Ampthill Estate Marker, S-3". Marker History. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ Lounsbury, Carl. "Henry Cary (d. by 1750)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born in 1762 at Ampthill, her grandfather's Chesterfield County plantation, now the site of the Dupont Company" - ^ "Ampthill Marker, SA-30". Marker History. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- Houses in Chesterfield County, Virginia
- Pre-statehood history of Virginia
- James River plantations
- Cary family of Virginia
- Georgian architecture in Virginia
- Central Virginia geography stubs