- Joined
- Jun 24, 2011
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
Stop by Harper's Ferry.
I didn't make it to the Museum of the Confederacy when I was there, but Tredegar Works was pretty cool as were the battlefields I hit there, they weren't all built up which for me made it was a great time.How is Richmond and the museum of the Confederacy?
I would recommend the Museum of the Confederacy and the White House of the Confederacy when you are in Richmond. Also everyone may want to know that the new Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox is to have grand opening on March 31. There is to be a special ceremony. If we lived in area, we would go.
If you are in Richmond and if you like old beautiful homes and estates, I recommend a tour of the James River Plantations along Virginia Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. It is a road between Richmond and historic Williamsburg. There are five beautiful plantations: Sherwood Forrest, Westover, Shirley, Evelynton and Berkeley.
Charles City County was established in 1619 and the plantations and farms along this road have survived the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812. and the Civil War. Charles City has been the home to Benjamin Harrison, Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler. General Robert E. Lee spent much of his boyhood here and agriculturist Edmund Ruffin, who fired the first shot of the Civil War, practiced his innovative techniques on Charles City soil. Lott Cary, the first black American missionary to Africa and founding father of Liberia was born here.