President Tyler's Home

Just to the south is Sherwood Forest, where John Tyler lived after his retirement from the presidency until his death in 1862. He bought the plantation in 1842, during his presidency, and moved in after his term ended in March 1845. Here Tyler and his second wife, Julia Gardiner, raised a large family. Among their children were David Gardiner Tyler, member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1890s, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler, a prominent historian and president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1919.