Wilton

Wilton is a Virginia historical marker in Henrico County, dedicated 2016.

New Market Road, at intersection with Herman Street

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Wilton, a Georgian manor house built ca. 1753 for William Randolph III and his wife, Anne Harrison, stood on the banks of the James River three and a half miles southwest of here. Enslaved African Americans grew tobacco on the 2,500-acre plantation. In May 1781, during the Revolutionary War, Wilton served as the Marquis de Lafayette's headquarters. The house, sold out of the Randolph family in 1859, went into foreclosure early in the 1930s. To ensure the building’s preservation, The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia purchased it in 1932. The house was dismantled and rebuilt in what is now the west end of Richmond in 1934.

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1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1781 · MARCH of the ARMY under Lieut:t General EARL CORNWALLIS in VIRGINIA, from the JUNCTION at… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1794 · Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Hughes Military Map Of Richmond & Petersburgh, Va. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering the location of Wilton, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Wilton

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