Lewis Burwell built a significant mansion at his Kingsmill Plantation in James City County. A major landholder in Isle of Wight, James City, King William, and York counties, he became a naval officer and collected customs fees at what became known as Burwell’s Ferry. The largesse allowed him to build his home near where his nephew Carter Burwell would construct Carter’s Grove. Kingsmill was an important example of Virginia‘s Georgian architecture, though it burned in the 1840s.
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