TEDINGTON 



ANDY POINT, or Tedlngton, named for the 

 English village on the Thames, 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 Coun- 

 cil of Virginia, a lieutenant-colonel and justice of the peace. 

 Beneath an armorial tomb he now sleeps in the family burying- 

 ground at Tedington. 



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. The old house was built in the 

 year about 17 17, and is 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 oblit- 

 erated by time, quantities of shrubbery and tangles of roses still 

 charm the visitor to the historical spot. The chief interest of this 



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