Berkeley Plantation is the most historic plantation on the James River and is located between Williamsburg and Richmond, Virginia. Berkeley is the site of the first official Thanksgiving as well as the ancestral home of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, his son, ninth U.S. President William Henry Harrison, and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third president. Taps was composed here at the Civil War headquarters of General McClellan. Enjoy this 1726 Georgian style mansion and its beautifully landscaped grounds.
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