The Northern Neck of Virginia is known for the plantation homes of the Washingtons and Lees. But just up the road in Warsaw, their close friend and fellow patriot John Tayloe II was a successful businessman whose Mount Airy Plantation has been the private home of the Tayloe family for more 250 years.
Now, it's latest generation of owners, John Tayloe Emery and his wife Catherine are opening it's doors to the public in some unusual ways.
Mount Airy Plantation Renovation
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One of the oldest doors in Virginia.
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View from a room in the west wing household slave quarters
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Redone into hunter's quarters, once a bedroom for household slaves
