Qualla: Carter's Grove https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/e/carter-s-grove-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carter's Grove https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove Carter's Grove: Introduction https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove/ Photo credit Melissa Wilkins from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Beneath the manicured grounds of a Georgian plantation on the James River lie the bones of a settlement that most of its residents never left alive. In 1976, archaeologists working the grounds of Carter's Grove uncovered the remains of Wolstenholme Towne, a small English outpost established around 1620 on the land grant known as Martin's Hundred, just a few miles downstream from Jamestown. The population was decimated in the Indian massacre of 1622, and the settlement was abandoned. For more than 350 years, it lay forgotten beneath the soil of what became one of Virginia's grandest plantations.

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/e/carter-s-grove-wp/dq9e-carters-grove-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carter's Grove: From King Carter's Fortune to Georgian Grandeur https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove/ Photo credit Melissa Wilkins from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. The plantation takes its name from the Carter family, one of colonial Virginia's most powerful dynasties. Robert "King" Carter, born in 1663 at Corotoman in Lancaster County, accumulated vast landholdings across the colony. He purchased the tract that had been Wolstenholme Towne,...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/e/carter-s-grove-wp/dq9e-carters-grove-from-king-carters-fortune-to-georgian-grandeur.mp3 0:06 2 full Carter's Grove: Red, White, and Blue on the River https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove/ Photo credit Melissa Wilkins from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Carter's Grove passed through a series of owners who each left their mark on the property. Edwin Gilliam Booth, a Virginia lawyer and "New South" advocate, purchased the estate in 1879, two years before the centennial celebration of Washington's victory at nearby Yorktown. Booth ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/e/carter-s-grove-wp/dq9e-carters-grove-red-white-and-blue-on-the-river.mp3 0:06 3 full Carter's Grove: The Layers Beneath https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove/ Photo credit Melissa Wilkins from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. The most important discovery at Carter's Grove was invisible from the surface. In the 1970s, archaeologists excavated the remains of the circa 1620 Wolstenholme Towne fortified settlement, owned by an investment group of the Virginia Company of London. The settlement was one of t...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/e/carter-s-grove-wp/dq9e-carters-grove-the-layers-beneath.mp3 0:06 4 full Carter's Grove: A Landmark's Uncertain Future https://qualla.com/carter-s-grove/ Photo credit Melissa Wilkins from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operated Carter's Grove from 1969, when the Rockefeller Foundation gifted the property, until 2003, when the site closed to the public. The practical challenge was distance: Colonial Williamsburg was miles away, and few visitors made the journ...

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