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Berkeley Plantation

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Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation
Phone:
+1 804-829-6018

Hours:
Sunday9:30am - 4:30pm
Monday9:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday9:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday9:30am - 4:30pm


Berkeley Plantation, one of the first slave rearing estates 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 originally called Berkeley Hundred and named after the Berkeley Company of England. Benjamin Harrison IV built on the estate what is believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia and is the ancestral home to two Presidents of the United States: William Henry Harrison, his grandson, and Benjamin Harrison his great-great-grandson. It is now a museum property, open to the public. Among the many American firsts that occurred at Berkeley Plantation are: First time Army bugle call Taps played: July 1862, by bugler Oliver W. Norton; the melody was written at Harrison's Landing, the plantation's old wharf, by Norton and then General Daniel Butterfield. American whiskey was originally distilled at Berkeley Plantation in 1620.
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