Surrounded by prime farmland, Harwood situated his home atop a little knoll with a spring at the base. A variety of programs and events are scheduled throughout the year, including a Civil War reenactment early each spring summer camps devoted to the study of the Civil War and holiday-season events in December.Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, and $4 for children ages 7 through 18. Built in 1769 by William Harwood, the ‘T- frame Georgian-style house renamed Endview in the 1850s, served as a Confederate hospital during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Today, Endview is a living-history museum with both Confederate and Union camps represented.
When the Confederates were forced to retreat toward Richmond, the Curtis family left too they regained possession of the home after the war. On Tuesday, April 10, TVHS will host a very special trip to Historic Lee Hall in Newport News, whose history and illustrious name is an important part of the.
Endview served in that campaign, too-it was a field hospital briefly, and served as headquarters for two generals. When war broke out, Curtis organized and commanded a company of volunteers, the Warwick Beauregards, who took part in the Confederate defense during the Peninsula campaign. Humphrey Harwood Curtis, who opened his medical practice at the plantation. Fact: the plantation was an important element of the Confederacy’s defenses during the Peninsula campaign early in the Civil WarBy the time of the Civil War, the plantation belonged to William Harwood’s great-grandson, Dr. The citys tourism agency operates several other attractions at Lee Hall Mansion and Endview Plantation, as well as nearby civil war historical sites. Myth: George Washington did not stop there en route to the siege of Yorktown (though he almost certainly passed nearby). Since 1995, when the Newport News purchased it, historians and curators have been at work restoring it, discovering and studying artifacts, and sorting out myth from fact. The home-solid, but hardly opulent-was representative of the middle tiers of the landed gentry at the time. His descendant, William Harwood, built a simple white clapboard house on roughly 500 acres in 1769. Thomas Harwood, an early émigré to the Colonies who served as speaker of the House of Burgesses (the equivalent of a parliament for the colony). Description: One of the few remaining colonial-era homes on the Lower Peninsula is the centerpiece of Endview Plantation.The Endview lands belonged to the politically influential Harwood family for 350 years-originally part of the holdings of Capt.
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