Virginia's Historic Garden Week

Sunday-Monday, April 27-28, 2025

Open together, visitors will enjoy a special combo ticket to three historic properties that have been part of Historic Garden Week since the first tours in 1929. The tour includes access to the extensive grounds, gardens, numerous outbuildings, and first-floor interiors of Historic Berkeley, Shirley, and Westover, as well as nearby Westover Episcopal Church. Nestled along the James River, off scenic Route 5 in bucolic Charles City County, they were settled in the early 1600s as tobacco plantations, with Westover Church serving as the local parish. Their recorded histories date back over 400 years and are interwoven with stories of the earliest indigenous people, European settlers and indentured servants, enslaved Africans, and their descendants through the colonization, founding, fighting, and reconstruction of the United States of America. Virginia and National Historic Landmarks, they are working farms, private homes, and living links to our country’s past.

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Holiday Sip & Savor Tour

Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 3:30pm

Join the Carter’s and the Erda’s to celebrate the holidays in their historic 18th Century homes along the James River in Charles City, Virginia. They will each host a guided tour of the first floor and offer a sampling of their favorite wines paired with a combination of savory and sweet hors d'oeuvres.

Visit historicshirley.com to book. $90 per person. Space is limited. Email info@historicshirley.com to inquire about booking as a private event.

Must be 21 years or older to partake in wine tastings. Please be prepared to show a valid ID at both homes.

Check in at the Shirley Gift Shop by 3:20 pm. The event begins at Shirley at 3:30 pm. Arrive at Historic Westover by 4:30 pm.

You will provide your own transportation to reach each location. This is a rain or shine event.

Space is limited.

Historic Garden Week