Chesterfield Library Passes are only for weekend tours

Tour Information for Weston Plantation 

Last tour each day–3 p.m. 

City Point Early History Museum, 609 Brown Avenue, is under renovation-No tours at this time

Weston Plantation’s

Sounds of Summer Concert Series

 April 26–Flashback—60’s-Top 40

May 3–Rear View Mirror–Rock, Blue, Country, Soul

May 10–Partners & Friends—Classic Country 

May 17–Chesterfield Concert Band & Jazz Ensemble—Show Tunes & Jazz Standards 

May 24–Heart of Country–Country Variety 

May 31–Shades of Gray–70’s-Top 40

June 7–Magnolia–Rock, Americana, Blues, R&B

Susanna’s Midnight Ride:  The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War by Libby Carty McNamee 

Almost five years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution hung in the balance.  In late May 1781, General Cornwallis invaded City Point and quartered his army close to Weston Manor.  As 16-year-old Susanna Bolling served the British general and his officer’s dinner, she overheard their plans to capture General Lafayette and crush the American Rebellion.  Under the cover of darkness, she snuck out of her  house and canoed downriver past Weston.  Then she grabbed a neighbor’s horse and rode ten miles to the Half-Way House to warn Lafayette.  But would she make it undetected?  The 2019 Virginia General Assembly recognized Susanna’s bravery, designating her birthday of December 5 as “Susanna Bolling Day” throughout the Commonwealth.  “Susanna’s Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War” is based on the TRUE story of this local heroine, whose story is just becoming known to Virginia, America, and the world.

Libby Carty McNamee has received a proclamation from the Virginia General Assembly regarding the Declaration of a “Susanna Bolling Day”

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