The Big House

Tudor Hall Plantation

This landscape re-creates elements of a typical Southside Virginia plantation during the mid-nineteenth century. Tudor Hall, an original nineteenth-century building, was at the center of a farm that supported the owner, his family, and their slaves. The exterior ...

Beyond the Big House

Slaves did virtually all the work that kept Chatham worthy of its widespread reputation for productivity, elegance, and hospitality. Before the Civil War, it’s unlikely that white residents ever amounted to more than 20 percent of Chatham’s population. At times ...

The Little House with a Big History

The Roi-Porlier-Tank Cottage...

has an extraordinary rich history in Green Bay, as it was home to a fur trader, schoolmaster, judge

and missionary.

In 1803, a French Canadian fur trader by the name of Joseph Roi built the small cottage along the

west bank ...