Wilton

A short distance south is Wilton, a Georgian manor house built ca. 1753 for William Randolph III and his wife, Anne Carter Harrison. As a widow, Anne endorsed the Virginia nonimportation association of 1769 protesting taxes levied by Parliament. Wilton house originally stood along the James River in eastern Henrico County, where it was at the center of a large tobacco and wheat plantation sustained by enslaved laborers. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were visitors, and the Marquis de Lafayette made his headquarters there in May 1781. In the 1930s, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia purchased the house and had it rebuilt here.

Department of Historic Resources, 2026