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Westover Church
A short distance south is Westover Church. It was first bu...
Westover
In 1619 the first settlement was made at Westover, about 2...
Westover Plantation
Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James
Westove...
Westover
McClellan’s New Base
Following the last of the Seven...
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Westover Church
A short distance south is Westover Church. It was first built on the James River near Westover House early in the Seventeeth century. About 1730 the site was changed and the present building erected. Defaced in the campaign of 1862, ...
Westover
In 1619 the first settlement was made at Westover, about 2 miles southeast. Two settlers died in the Powhatan uprising of 1622. Theodorick Bland bought Westover in 1666; William Byrd I acquired it in 1688. About 1730 his son, Colonel ...
Westover Plantation
Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James
Westover Plantation was established in 1619, part of the rapid agricultural expansion that followed several years of mere subsistence for the English at Jamestown. Often, the English co-opted fields already cleared by Natives for ...
Westover
McClellan’s New Base
Following the last of the Seven Days' Battles on July 1, 1862, at Malvern Hill, Gen. George B. McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac continued its retreat to the James River. McClellan had earlier decided to "change his ...