Prestwould Plantation is the most intact and best documented plantation surviving in Southern Virginia.

Open for Tours April 15 – Oct 31st | 12:30 – 3:30 Friday & Saturday, 1:30 – 3:30 Sunday. The last tour each day begins at 2:15.

Seat of one of the principal Cavalier families of Virginia, Prestwould was built by Sir Peyton Skipwith for himself and his second wife, Lady Jean. Sir Peyton was an American-born Baronet, third in descent from Sir Grey Skipwith, who immigrated from England to Middlesex County, Virginia during the rule of Oliver Cromwell.

An avid book collector and amateur botanist, Jean Miller Skipwith, Lady Skipwith assembled one of the largest libraries owned by a Virginia woman early in the 19th century. Prestwould remained in the Skipwith family for four generations into the 20th century.