According to the first Virginia tax census following the American Revolutionary War, in 1787, Charles Hill Carter owned 67 enslaved people above age 16 at Shirley Plantation and another …

Shirley is Virginia’s first plantation, founded in 1613 after a royal land grant carved the plantation out of the Virginia frontier. Shirley is also the oldest family-owned business in North America …

2022年8月29日 · Shirley is a premier example of an colonial Virginia tobacco plantation and is the oldest plantation in Virginia, dating to 1613. The property was patented to Edward Hill in 1660 …

Shirley Plantation was initially owned by Edward Hill (1590 - 1664). When he died the land passed to Edward Hill II. [3] His son Edward Hill III inherited the property in 1700 and continued its …

2019年3月16日 · Founded with a land grant in 1613, Shirley Plantation came under the ownership of the Hill Carter family in 1638, and has been in the family ever since. The current owners, …

About 40 years after this first settlement Edward Hill purchased land in Shirley Hundred that would become Historic Shirley. Twelve generations of Edward Hill’s descendants have lived at …

2020年11月18日 · The current owners can date their family’s work at Shirley to 1638 when Edward Hill acquired the land. The Hill family merged with the legendary Carter family in 1723, …

2019年4月3日 · Three years ago, Shirley Plantation planted pecan trees and started farming freshwater prawns in the James River. Lauren’s husband Charles also owns and manages a …

2016年7月25日 · Shirley Plantation is the oldest active plantation in Virginia and is the oldest family-owned business in North America, dating back to 1614 with operations starting in 1638. …

2019年6月9日 · Shirley Plantation is America’s oldest family-owned business dating back nearly four hundred years. The estate has been actively farmed and occupied by direct descendants …