Tuckahoe Plantation, boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, is a National Historic Landmark and is protected by a preservation easement donated by the owners. It is considered by architectural historians to be among the finest early 18th-century plantation homes in America.
A guest at Tuckahoe in the late 1700s commented that the house seemed “to be built solely to answer the purpose of hospitality.” Built between 1730 and 1740 by William Randolph, this unique home and its outbuildings have persisted through a rich American history. After William and his wife's deaths, Peter and Jane Jefferson moved to Tuckahoe with their children, including two-year-old Thomas. They cared for the plantation and the Randolph orphans until 1752, when Thomas Mann Randolph became of age. Thomas Jefferson left Tuckahoe Plantation at nine-years-old, but returned many times as an adult.
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