Movie & Historic Vacations in Virginia Tour Itinerary

Enjoy the grandeur of three of Virginia's most breathtaking plantations.. Learn the role each played in America's history and in the historical Hollywood movies and TV shows filmed at the plantations. This extraordinary tour offers you an opportunity to experience the imaginative and valuable use of how intertwining movies with Virginia's fertile history reflects how art imitates life to show us ourselves in the historical past and in the present.

Visit Tuckahoe Plantation, childhood home to Thomas Jefferson and the school he attended. Receive a guided tour of the house and the colonial gardens from one of Tuckahoe's historic guides in costume and learn the remarkable history of this plantation. Discover television's most romantic movie ever made, Hallmark Hall of Fame's classic film, The Love Letter, filmed at one of Virginia's most romantic plantations, along with other films and TV shows filmed here.

Travel to Charles City and enjoy lunch at the Charles City Tavern. Once the Indian Fields Tavern and a well-known Charles City County restaurant it was recently purchased by Michael McKnight, the former Indian Fields Tavern's executive chef, and his wife Cate. Charles City Tavern is located in a restored Victorian farmhouse, dating back to 1890, in the heart of Virginia Plantation County. Sample a delicious selection of Virginia style cooking by a master chef.

Following lunch, visit Historic Berkeley Plantation, Virginia's most historic plantation and the site of the first official Thanksgiving. Berkeley is the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence and three times governor of Virginia. The estate is also the birthplace of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States and ancestral home of his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third President. Receive a guided tour of the beautiful home with furniture authentic to the period.

General George McClellan at this Union headquarters and supply base composed "Taps" at Berkley. Envision President Lincoln reviewing 140,000 troops here in 1862. Learn about the filming of scenes here for the movie, The New World, about the founding of the Jamestown Settlement, starring Christian Bale as John Rolfe, Christopher Plummer as Captain Christopher Newport and Colin Farrell as John Smith, along with other films.

Next visit Westover. One of Virginia's oldest and grandest plantation mansions and considered perhaps America's premier example of colonial Georgian architecture and quintessential James River Plantation house. Westover was built c. 1750 by the Byrd family. William Byrd II, known as the founder of Richmond, kept his diaries and documents of his life in Virginia and England here. His library at Westover was the largest in the colonies, with 4,000 volumes.

The grounds include formal gardens and outbuildings and a set of 18th century English wrought-iron gates among the most elaborate in America. Learn about the filming of the HBO's mini-series, John Adams at Westover, the filming of the mini-series Dream West, starring 1980's heartthrob, Richard Chamberlain, who stared in TV's Dr. Kildere, plus other TV shows filmed here.

All attraction fees, plus lunch w/tax and tip are part of your Movie and Historic Vacations in Virginia Touring Package

Virginia Film Tours LLC, 4932 Long Shadow Drive, Midlothian, VA, 23112,

(804) -744-1718, www.virginiafilmtours.com e-mail: virginiafilmtours@comcast.net