"Well, once upon a time, in a dark wood, a space tug landed in the field of an old Virginia plantation."

Jefferson gave others to his sister and daughters as wedding presents, and they lived at other Virginia plantations.

He sold his small inherited Virginia plantation in 1783 to enter law and politics.

James Madison, the fourth President, was a slave owner and master of a 2,700-acre Virginia plantation.

The western part of the airport was once part of a large Virginia plantation.

Nearly 30,000 blacks visit the Virginia plantation every year, making up about 5 percent of its 550,000 annual visitors.

After the war, he returned to his Virginia plantation.

In the early 1940's, two families, one black, one white, become uneasy neighbors on the grounds of a former Virginia plantation.

"Hunt 1,000 acres of a 1619 Virginia plantation, not hunted in over 30 years," the brochure said.

In 1791, Carter began a manumission process that would eventually free some 450 people on his northern Virginia plantations and beyond.