Winchester's history covers both the Revolutionary and Civil War eras. Sir Thomas Dale, a leader of the Jamestown party was charged with establishing a safer, healthier location. He founded Henricus along the James River in an area inhabited by the Appomattucks tribe and where Pocahontas grew up. Henricus was the second English settlement in the New World. This James River settlement was the fledgling English colony's next step west from Jamestown.
Evidence indicates that the first hospital in English America was established here.
The settlement was in decline when an Indian masscre in 1622 put an end to the occupation. The house was named after a large circle of magnolia tress that once grew in its front yard. A carefully restored plantation house, with authentic furnishing, including wallpaper and carpeting of the early 19th century, makes this house unique. The farm hosts a market fair where living history performers take you back to an 18th century fair, as well as a wassailing at Christmas. Colvin Run Mill Colvin Run was built circa 1811 on the site of an older mill.