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Chelsea (West Point, Virginia)

1709 establishments in the Colony of VirginiaBrick buildings and structures in VirginiaHistoric American Buildings Survey in VirginiaHouses completed in 1709Houses in King William County, Virginia
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Chelsea is a historic home located near West Point, King William County, Virginia. It was built in 1709, and consists of a two-story, brick main block with a hipped roof and 1+1⁄2-story, gambrel roofed rear ell. In 1764, Thomas Jefferson attended the wedding of an old friend, John Walker, at Chelsea; sources commonly say (and Jefferson eventually, in 1805, seemed to acknowledge) that he later repeatedly made improper advances to his friend's wife, all of which she rejected. In 1781, shortly before the Battle of Yorktown, Lafayette's army camped at Chelsea, and the Marquis de Lafayette used the house as his headquarters. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

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