Tammy did a fantastic job! Her knowledge and straight forward telling the story is so watchable! I've added some knowledge to my American History! Tammy, Bill and Chris!
Thank you so much for the encouragement. Tammy loves doing what she does-I’m so proud of her! We had a great time meeting Chris. Love his passion for history..
Thanks! The best video of one of the most historic homes in Virginia, if not the entire country. Tammy is the best docent- thumbs up to this video all around!!
Chris, this is one of my favorite episodes of your travels. I’ve toured homes on James River several times but never got around to seeing Berkeley. This was fascinating. Thank you!
One of your best videos. Great job. Tammy as a docent did a fantastic job. Knows everything and really cares about the mansion. We need to do this to more historic homes. Too many are torn down. Glad this one survived two wars.
Chris, this definitely ranks as one of your most fascinating videos! A real treat for a history, architecture and garden enthusiast. Tammy is definitely a font of knowledge and a wonderful guide! I loved seeing the huge and ancient Boxwood hedges on the grounds. I know a lot of boxwoods have succumbed to disease and freezing temperatures over the last couple of decades, so it's amazing to see those looking so robust.
I got to meet Mr. Jamerson and did some work for him. Great gentleman and story teller. We got close enough to call him Mac. Helped with the TAPS monument. I may have spelled his last name wrong. Please correct me and I will edit my comment. My time working there is sweetly remembered.🦇
Thank you for this throughly informative and fascinating tour. There were so many wonderful tidbits of history that Tammy shared. I am a 4th cousin to William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) through Ann Armistead (1612-1660) and a 3rd cousin to John Tyler (1790-1862) through Hannah Shields (1660-1739).
This is my favorite tour that you have shared! Your filming was well done, and the tour orator was so knowledgeable and fluent in her delivery. William Henry Harrison, the 31-day president, final resting place is near my home. So it was very interesting to see this tour of his ancestors and colleagues since I can identify many of the names mentioned to my area.
On behalf of my wife, Tammy..who did the tour, I want to thank you for the kind words! Tammy loves what she does, and it definitely shows. We came out there to see the grave and monument last year. It’s beautiful! We also toured Grouseland in Vincennes, and the Benjamin Harrison home in Indianapolis. It was a trip we’ll never forget.
I loved this so much. I am a direct decendant of Benjamin IV and Sarah Anne Carter through their son Captain Henry Harrison and his wife Elizabeth Avery.
Wonderful video! A beautiful house which is well preserved. The furniture is to die for! Georgian architecture and furniture are my all time favorites. They exude such elegance. Your docent was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the house and the grounds.
The hand crocheted bedspread at 36:41 was made by my great grandmother Amanda Jane who was raised at Berkeley Plantation by her two old Aunts. They did not give her the Harrison name (family dispute)❤
Wow! This is the best historical tour video I've ever seen. Theres so much to see and so much info to absorb. I'll be watching this many times over. Tammy is amazing and so are u, thanks for sharing😊
Very interesting,great detailed history. You learn so much from going to a site like this and getting the facts straight. I love that. Back when I was going to school 1960s there were so many things either not talked about or with held,yeah prejudices cause misunderstanding,and that leads to cover up and lies. All of America's history is important in my opinion,we don't accomplish anything by ignoring the truth. Good tour. I especially found that basement intriguing.
Sir, I’m glad Ms Tammy oriented us to the River Entrance vs. the Carriage Entrance! Well Done! For thirty three (33) years, I taught … Front Door… water … Side. door, North “Clubhouse” door, West Door… and yesterday, 3 July 2024… Sales man very good but not oriented to Southern Living… God Bless “Dear Heart! Good News… Here’s where “Designer” with Current American Talent… comes right into my world! By next Saturday… in 8 days, I will have complete Design Specifications to begin the Build Part of this “ Museum” Tribute to my Family… World War I, Great Depression clear on through to Anthrax post 9/11/01… and yours truly went to the Middle East in 2005 and carries on… No Prisoners and No buddy left behind…God Bless Yiu! NJ Deale mD, 20751
The plantation reopens on Saturday, March 16. If I’m working when you visit, I’ll be happy to do your tour. But I will say, all of the docents are knowledgeable and share my passion for history and Berkeley.
I live two miles from the mouth of the James River and every time l see it l think about the history that was made up and down it's banks. I have never visited Berkley Plantation but this video makes me want to see it in person.
I visited here several years ago. It was great watching this because there was so much when I took the tour that I couldn’t take it all in. I was hoping to learn more about Bacon’s Rebellion. Having grown up on the West Coast I had no idea of the turbulence during the earliest years of the Virginia colony. 😮
What an awesome docent and interesting place! I think if I were you I'd get me some warmer winter gear & hothands products. You looked so uncomfortable. Thanks for toughing it out & for this well done video. New subscriber!
Thanks for the kind words! You’re right-it was so cold and blowey that day! That high spot off the river gets that way, and we always seem to underestimate it..
Howdy or Ahoy! Great research! Thank you! My “Education” of Southern” was begun 1974… Biloxi , Mississippi…next 1976 Charleston SC, then Beaufort SC, Savannah GA and Hilton Head 1976-1992… sufficientky prepared to copy Federal Style on the Chesapeake, Western Shore! Target on my back since 1991… still alive…… keep up your studies, your videos…I thank you so very much! Nurse Jane, Deale, MD 20751 God Bless You!
I’ve heard of this one. Might have been there as a child. My parents dragged us around most of the historical places in the southern half of VA when we were young.
I looked this up, but I’m having trouble finding it. Are you referring to Rocky Spring? I’m seeing a family cemetery, but the house may not be there. I found a Leake property known as Woodlawn-very beautiful! Private residence…
Sir, I love that word Ms Tammy used, “ Un cough” in NYC, my playground… No one ever mentioned Money…I saw…and I imagined… and I saw and I knew… Still, we never said the word “Money” NJ
Sir, I had a young friend, his name,e was Tyler…sadly, no way out…as in John Paul Sartra’s “No Exit” Tyler said to members “ No thank you, Nurse Jane…” Then Tyler was “Dead”! Oh… I was livid! And …Tyler’s Grandma was in Heaven so… I imagined both were happy as larks… leaving the man who put her blood out the Livimg Room wall, to get soaked into his booze… he still lives! Miss Tootsie, said to me years ago… How, she did not know! Tyler cut a CD of. Dean Martin so Ms Tootsie and I could do our sing along … well, Southern Girls, knew how to have fun! NJ of Deale, Merry Land 20751
Sir, please thank Ms Tammy. Sir, very wealthy folks from Long Island New Your, encouraged Wilbur C Mason to purchase this waterfront acreage on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.. Herring Bay. Washington D.c. Bankers continues and until I put my foot down… Governor of Maryland and Anne Arundel County Executive think they can just take away private property… not Imminent Domaine, but “Special Taxing District” as of 2014. Absolutely Not! What’s more, every waterfront home owner better do his or her share personally and not with Government monies! My R-5 zoned property is Not a Public Park! So… I’m carrying on the Good Fight! So did our Lawyers in Pennsylvania…1776…1778… thank you, NJ Deale MD 20751
@@tammyshorttelrod4134 that does not answer my question. Why one in the dinning room? I have never seen that in any histoic homes I have ever worked in.
The set of coin silver teaspoons on the dining room table date to ca. 1810-20. Someone told y'all a tall tale. Don't take all oral histories as Gospel. Look first to the object itself!
Interesting. But any plantation tour should offer a reminder of slavery on the property and how it enabled the family to live wealthy privileged lives.
The slavery information was covered as part of the tour introduction on the front steps but due to the weather (very very windy) most of that part of the tour was unusable because all you could hear is the wind. In the grounds part of the tour we did discuss slavery as well as a well known slave born at Berkeley who eventually bought his freedom and became an early voice for abolition. (Emanuel Quivers)
He probably would have been richer if he just paid the slaves a wage and sent them on their way. Slaves were very expensive to purchase then you had to provide housing, food, clothing, medicine for when they were sick and then had to take care of them when they were young when they were elderly. The institution of slavery was terrible but they would have been just as successful if they had lived under a different economic model.
I'm very disappointed in the docent... A lot of what she said had very little historical support. It's an old wives' tale he contracted pneumonia, most historians believe it was likely cholera.
Tammy did a fantastic job! Her knowledge and straight forward telling the story is so watchable! I've added some knowledge to my American History! Tammy, Bill and Chris!
Thank you so much for the encouragement. Tammy loves doing what she does-I’m so proud of her! We had a great time meeting Chris. Love his passion for history..
I’ve been here several times. It’s really nice around Christmas.
Superb video, the docent Tammy is fabulous and I really enjoyed the tour.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks! The best video of one of the most historic homes in Virginia, if not the entire country. Tammy is the best docent- thumbs up to this video all around!!
I’ll make sure to read your kind words to Tammy! She and Chris really hit this one out of the park..
Please do- her knowledge and enthusiasm are great, every docent could learn from her!!
Thank you Ann!!
This video was fabulous. I learned so much………Thankyou❤
That woman was excellent in her presentation . You were smart too let her talk . Too many TH-camrs don’t know when to shut up
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour of Berkeley Plantation. About 60 years ago I visited Shirley Plantation with my family.
The Chippendale furniture style really caught my eye, nice!
Chris, this is one of my favorite episodes of your travels. I’ve toured homes on James River several times but never got around to seeing Berkeley. This was fascinating. Thank you!
Thanks! You definitely need to make it out
@@VATravels I would like to see Mrs Walter Majors ‘Bel Aire’ on the James. I’m not sure if it’s open for tours anymore.
@@jefflawrentz1624 I don’t think it’s open, except for sometimes being on the “Autumn Pilgrimage” and Garden Week tours…beautiful house!
One of your best videos. Great job. Tammy as a docent did a fantastic job. Knows everything and really cares about the mansion. We need to do this to more historic homes. Too many are torn down. Glad this one survived two wars.
She was great.
Chris, this definitely ranks as one of your most fascinating videos! A real treat for a history, architecture and garden enthusiast. Tammy is definitely a font of knowledge and a wonderful guide! I loved seeing the huge and ancient Boxwood hedges on the grounds. I know a lot of boxwoods have succumbed to disease and freezing temperatures over the last couple of decades, so it's amazing to see those looking so robust.
I grew up in Mount Vernon Va..there are so many beautiful homes..
This has been an awesome tour! So glad she let you in!! She was great! Thank her from your followers! And thank you for what you do !!
Thank you for my second visit to Berkeley Plantation! Very interesting and informative!
This home was eventually sold to the Jameison family. My grandfather was an honorary pallbearer when Mr Jameison passed away
I got to meet Mr. Jamerson and did some work for him. Great gentleman and story teller. We got close enough to call him Mac. Helped with the TAPS monument. I may have spelled his last name wrong. Please correct me and I will edit my comment. My time working there is sweetly remembered.🦇
Thank you for this wonderful video! So grateful that we have people like you and Tammy that devote so much of yourselves keeping history alive.
It always amazes me how much history you can recall from memory…wow!
I’ve recently started my Ancestry journey and am related to Benjamin Harrison and it is quite an honor! Thank you for posting this great video!
Thank you for this throughly informative and fascinating tour. There were so many wonderful tidbits of history that Tammy shared. I am a 4th cousin to William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) through Ann Armistead (1612-1660) and a 3rd cousin to John Tyler (1790-1862) through Hannah Shields (1660-1739).
Super awesome tour, thank you..!!
Thank you so much…this was filled with fascinating facts both inside and out!!!
This is my favorite tour that you have shared! Your filming was well done, and the tour orator was so knowledgeable and fluent in her delivery. William Henry Harrison, the 31-day president, final resting place is near my home. So it was very interesting to see this tour of his ancestors and colleagues since I can identify many of the names mentioned to my area.
On behalf of my wife, Tammy..who did the tour, I want to thank you for the kind words! Tammy loves what she does, and it definitely shows. We came out there to see the grave and monument last year. It’s beautiful! We also toured Grouseland in Vincennes, and the Benjamin Harrison home in Indianapolis. It was a trip we’ll never forget.
I loved this so much.
I am a direct decendant of Benjamin IV and Sarah Anne Carter through their son Captain Henry Harrison and his wife Elizabeth Avery.
We are probably related!
She is a treasure! Loved this tour!
Wonderful video! A beautiful house which is well preserved. The furniture is to die for! Georgian architecture and furniture are my all time favorites. They exude such elegance. Your docent was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the house and the grounds.
Great video, knowledge was great , can’t wait weather warms up so I go see these sites
You will enjoy!
The hand crocheted bedspread at 36:41 was made by my great grandmother Amanda Jane who was raised at Berkeley Plantation by her two old Aunts. They did not give her the Harrison name (family dispute)❤
No mention of it in video.
I have been to Berkeley a handful of times. This place calls me. I have to say this is the best tour I have had yet! Thank you so much.
Great job Chris!! One of your best. And Tammy was captivating with her personality and knowledge. Congrats!!
VERY INFORMATIVE, VERY , INTERESTING, MUST SER DURING NICE WEATHER.
That was a wonderful tour! Very extensive too. THANK YOU to Tammy for allowing you to tour & film!
Thanks! It was great of her
Wow!
This is the best historical tour video I've ever seen. Theres so much to see and so much info to absorb. I'll be watching this many times over. Tammy is amazing and so are u, thanks for sharing😊
Many compliments to Ms Tammy and yourself! Tippycanoe and Tyler too!
A crazy amount of history one of the best tours. I think i've ever seen than going there in person thank you so much
Fantastic. Really enjoyed
This lady is one of the best docents I’ve heard! So well done! Thank you!
Thanks for your kind words! I love history and sharing the historical background of Berkeley Plantation
Very interesting,great detailed history. You learn so much from going to a site like this and getting the facts straight. I love that. Back when I was going to school 1960s there were so many things either not talked about or with held,yeah prejudices cause misunderstanding,and that leads to cover up and lies. All of America's history is important in my opinion,we don't accomplish anything by ignoring the truth. Good tour. I especially found that basement intriguing.
Sir, I’m glad Ms Tammy oriented us to the River Entrance vs. the Carriage Entrance! Well Done! For thirty three (33) years, I taught … Front Door… water … Side. door, North “Clubhouse” door, West Door… and yesterday, 3 July 2024… Sales man very good but not oriented to Southern Living… God Bless “Dear Heart! Good News… Here’s where “Designer” with Current American Talent… comes right into my world! By next Saturday… in 8 days, I will have complete Design Specifications to begin the Build Part of this “ Museum” Tribute to my Family… World War I, Great Depression clear on through to Anthrax post 9/11/01… and yours truly went to the Middle East in 2005 and carries on… No Prisoners and No buddy left behind…God Bless Yiu! NJ Deale mD, 20751
Wow! Fantastic video. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for sharing, will definitely make plans to visit.
Great!
I love the docents tour of the Harrison house. Such a lovely voice.
You are a great historian. Great job with this.
Thank you!
Excellent tour... I enjoyed this thoroughly. I Adore this colonial architecture... I have extreme house envy watching this.
Wonderful tour. Thank you for sharing. I will have to take my wife for a visit in the Spring.
Great! You will enjoy.
A terrific piece of history in this video. Thanks so much.
This was so interesting!!! Tammy gives a WONDERFUL tour! I really enjoyed this...and learned a lot. Thank you! ❤
Tammy is fantastic, this was wonderful! ❤ I hope she is there when we visit, can we request her?
The plantation reopens on Saturday, March 16. If I’m working when you visit, I’ll be happy to do your tour. But I will say, all of the docents are knowledgeable and share my passion for history and Berkeley.
You and I are kindred spirits, I believe, so hopefully you will be there whenever we do get to visit. @tammyshorttelrod4134
AWESOME !!! Thank you .
Tim from “Moonshiners” is not from Culpeper. He’s from Danville. He was my dental patient years ago when I practiced there.
I live two miles from the mouth of the James River and every time l see it l think about the history that was made up and down it's banks. I have never visited Berkley Plantation but this video makes me want to see it in person.
Excellent video! Thank you!
Appreciate it!
I visited here several years ago. It was great watching this because there was so much when I took the tour that I couldn’t take it all in. I was hoping to learn more about Bacon’s Rebellion. Having grown up on the West Coast I had no idea of the turbulence during the earliest years of the Virginia colony. 😮
Awesome
Such a great video,Thanks for taking the time to tour it as it should be done...BTW I have been to many eagle releases there at the Taps site
Oh neat. Thanks!
Well Done Chris!
Thanks!
Thanks so very much for this great video.
Been a long time.
I want to go again 😊😊😊
What an awesome docent and interesting place! I think if I were you I'd get me some warmer winter gear & hothands products. You looked so uncomfortable. Thanks for toughing it out & for this well done video. New subscriber!
Thanks for the kind words! You’re right-it was so cold and blowey that day! That high spot off the river gets that way, and we always seem to underestimate it..
Couldn’t sleep till I watched it! 😊
Just bummed George couldn’t make an appearance. 😂
@@VATravels 😆…yes, he’s the one missing piece
Howdy or Ahoy! Great research! Thank you! My “Education” of Southern” was begun 1974… Biloxi , Mississippi…next 1976 Charleston SC, then Beaufort SC, Savannah GA and Hilton Head 1976-1992… sufficientky prepared to copy Federal Style on the Chesapeake, Western Shore! Target on my back since 1991… still alive…… keep up your studies, your videos…I thank you so very much! Nurse Jane, Deale, MD 20751 God Bless You!
Excellent
I’ve heard of this one. Might have been there as a child. My parents dragged us around most of the historical places in the southern half of VA when we were young.
Ahh that’s where the interest in history came from.
@@VATravelsPartly. It also comes from being a Virginian.
NICE HOME
Great tour
Thank you sir!
Have you been to William Leake's plantation in Gouchland Co Virginia, founded in the 1680s?
I looked this up, but I’m having trouble finding it. Are you referring to Rocky Spring? I’m seeing a family cemetery, but the house may not be there. I found a Leake property known as Woodlawn-very beautiful! Private residence…
My mom is from Pungeteaue VA
Sir, I love that word Ms Tammy used, “ Un cough” in NYC, my playground… No one ever mentioned Money…I saw…and I imagined… and I saw and I knew… Still, we never said the word “Money” NJ
Nice, proper brick house! In the Uk, its pronounced Barkleley.
You’re so right! My wife, Tammy has talked with Thorpe descendants from England, and they always pronounce it that way.
Thanks for watching from over there!
Thanks!
@@ernests3093 Thanks!!
this was a great video, they had window AC's in the 1800's (time 50:39)?
It’s used to keep the humidity out of the basement during the Summer..to keep from damaging the artifacts 😊
@@billelrod1779 I know that, I was making a joke.
@@7777russ it could’ve also been construed as a criticism of why a historic building would have a window unit..hence the explanation.
Berkley was my 14th great grandfather
Wonderful American history. Let's hope the Democrat's don't get offended and want to tear it down
Democrats no longer exist. They are all communists
Sir, I had a young friend, his name,e was Tyler…sadly, no way out…as in John Paul Sartra’s “No Exit” Tyler said to members “ No thank you, Nurse Jane…” Then Tyler was “Dead”! Oh… I was livid! And …Tyler’s Grandma was in Heaven so… I imagined both were happy as larks… leaving the man who put her blood out the Livimg Room wall, to get soaked into his booze… he still lives! Miss Tootsie, said to me years ago… How, she did not know! Tyler cut a CD of. Dean Martin so Ms Tootsie and I could do our sing along … well, Southern Girls, knew how to have fun! NJ of Deale, Merry Land 20751
omg the ghost that appeared at 34:28-34:30! jk lol. awesome tour/video
😂..I was doing my best Michael Myers impression
@@SolaceForTheSoul123 😁
46:25 “We mainly sell the northern ones we keep the southern ones.” 👀 uhh
Whats wrong with that?...
Sir, please thank Ms Tammy. Sir, very wealthy folks from Long Island New Your, encouraged Wilbur C Mason to purchase this waterfront acreage on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.. Herring Bay. Washington D.c. Bankers continues and until I put my foot down… Governor of Maryland and Anne Arundel County Executive think they can just take away private property… not Imminent Domaine, but “Special Taxing District” as of 2014. Absolutely Not! What’s more, every waterfront home owner better do his or her share personally and not with Government monies! My R-5 zoned property is Not a Public Park! So… I’m carrying on the Good Fight! So did our Lawyers in Pennsylvania…1776…1778… thank you, NJ Deale MD 20751
Why is the desk in the dinning room?
There is a desk in each room of the house
@@tammyshorttelrod4134 that does not answer my question. Why one in the dinning room? I have never seen that in any histoic homes I have ever worked in.
The set of coin silver teaspoons on the dining room table date to ca. 1810-20. Someone told y'all a tall tale. Don't take all oral histories as Gospel. Look first to the object itself!
These teaspoons came from Anne Carter Harrison’s 8th great grandson and he provided the record of ownership back to Anne.
Are you sure they bought piece of art from China "to show how rich they are"? I had not idea that is why people bought art.
Interesting. But any plantation tour should offer a reminder of slavery on the property and how it enabled the family to live wealthy privileged lives.
The slavery information was covered as part of the tour introduction on the front steps but due to the weather (very very windy) most of that part of the tour was unusable because all you could hear is the wind. In the grounds part of the tour we did discuss slavery as well as a well known slave born at Berkeley who eventually bought his freedom and became an early voice for abolition. (Emanuel Quivers)
He probably would have been richer if he just paid the slaves a wage and sent them on their way. Slaves were very expensive to purchase then you had to provide housing, food, clothing, medicine for when they were sick and then had to take care of them when they were young when they were elderly. The institution of slavery was terrible but they would have been just as successful if they had lived under a different economic model.
Why is it necessary to drill it into people? There is a lot more to our history than just slavery.
Ok Karen
Sound check
I'm very disappointed in the docent... A lot of what she said had very little historical support. It's an old wives' tale he contracted pneumonia, most historians believe it was likely cholera.
Is that a life or death conundrum?
Love your channel, I learn a lot. I follow you on instagram as well. Can you do more videos in South Carolina please