Chesterville Plantation

WY-100

One mile north is Chesterville, birthplace of George Wythe (1726-1806), a prominent Virginia attorney, judge, legislator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Wythe inherited the family plantation in the 1750s and operated it until the 1790s. After Chesterville's sale in 1802, the Hudgins and Winder families owned and farmed it until the 1930s; the house was destroyed by fire in 1911. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics purchased Chesterville in 1950. By the 1970s, archaeological excavations had identified a stone foundation believed to be from the house where Wythe was born.

Department of Historic Resources, 2010

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Foster, Mary L. Colonial Capitals of the Dominion of Virginia, 1906. New River Notes, www.newrivernotes.com/va/colcap/htm .Marks, Archibald Andrews. Jamestown Chronicles Timeline, 2007. The Jamestown Chronicles. www.historyisfun.org/chronicles/timeline.html . Grynes, Charles A. Who was the First European Child Born in Virginia? 2009, Virginia Places. www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/internatchild.html. Alonzo Thomas Dill, George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty. Williamsburg: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission 1979, p. 3. Hudgins, Garland C. and Richard B. Kleese, Recollections of and Old Dominion Dragoon. Orange, VA: Publisher’s Press, 1993. Various primary resources (patent records, deed references, wills, sale advertisements etc) are available upon request.