Stranica 48 [48]
OCR
TEDINGION ANDY POINT, or Tedington, named for the Fnglish village on the Ihames, is one of the most fertile of the many famous plantations lying along the banks of the lower James River. ‘The place was originally known as the Indian town of Paspahegh. In 1700, when it became the property of Captain Phillip Lightfoot, the first of the name in Virginia, it contained about five thousand acres. Captain Lightfoot was a man of prominence and wealth in his day, a member of the Council of Virginia, a lieutenant-colonel and justice of the peace. Beneath an armorial tomb he now sleeps in the family buryingground at Iedington. For many generations the estate remained in the Lightfoot family and, according to old chronicles, they lived there in “great splendor.” They drove a coach-and-four and dispensed royal hospitality to friends and relatives. [he old house was built in the year about 1717, and 1s a fine type of the frame dwellings of that period. It contains ten rooms, with a high pillared front porch, and stands about forty yards from the river in a beautiful shaded lawn that slopes gradually to the low, sandy beach. The interior of the dwelling is very attractive. Most of the rooms are large and high pitched with wainscoated walls. A huge chimney, which is nine feet thick and solid brick, runs through the center of the house. The flower garden and borders at Tedington are noted for their beauty. The old box-hedge, on the north side of the garden, is at least twenty feet high. Though the original lines of a formal garden have been obliterated by time, quantities of shrubbery and tangles of roses still charm the visitor to the historical spot. The chief interest of this [30] ) a
