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Tuckahoe Plantation

Tuckahoe Plantation
Tuckahoe plantation.JPG
Tuckahoe plantation's southern wing
Tuckahoe (plantation) is located in Virginia
Tuckahoe (plantation)
Tuckahoe (plantation) is located in the US
Tuckahoe (plantation)
Location SE of Manakin near jct. of Rtes. 650 and 647, near Manakin, Virginia
Coordinates 37°34′13.7″N 77°39′11.4″W / 37.570472°N 77.653167°W / 37.570472; -77.653167Coordinates: 37°34′13.7″N 77°39′11.4″W / 37.570472°N 77.653167°W / 37.570472; -77.653167
Area 568 acres (230 ha)
Built 1712 (1712)
Architect William Randolph
Architectural style Georgian, Other
NRHP Reference # 68000049
VLR # 037-0033
Significant dates
Added to NRHP November 22, 1968
Designated NHLD August 11, 1969
Designated VLR November 5, 1968

Tuckahoe, also known as Tuckahoe Plantation, is located on Route 650 near Manakin, Virginia overlapping both Goochland and Henrico counties, six miles from the town of the same name. Built in the first half of the 18th century, it is a well-preserved example of a colonial plantation house, and is particularly distinctive as a colonial prodigy house. Thomas Jefferson is also recorded as having spent some of his childhood here. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1969.

Construction of the home began by Thomas Randolph around 1714. William Randolph, Thomas' son, built a two-story, four room home in 1733 around the existing structure. This wing features pine and black walnut paneling with exquisite carvings and moldings. William then added a center hall and south wing, creating a unique "H"-shaped, which were completed by 1740. William and his wife, Maria Judith Page, had three children, two daughters and a son, but his wife died in 1744. William Randolph's cousin Jane married Peter Jefferson, and they were close friends. Before William Randolph died in 1745, he added a codicil to his will asking that Peter Jefferson come to Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his three orphaned children until his son Thomas Mann Randolph came of age. The Jeffersons moved from Shadwell in Charlottesville to Tuckahoe Plantation with their four daughters and two-year-old son Thomas. The Jeffersons lived in the "H" shape home with their own five children and the three Randolph orphans until 1752. During the seven years of the Jefferson residency, young Thomas was tutored in a one-room schoolhouse with his sisters and Randolph cousins. Jefferson directed the activities of the plantation and its seven overseers, "retaining a connection to the estate" even after he returned to his own plantation of Shadwell.


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