Westover Church is a historic church located 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Charles City off Virginia State Route 5 in Charles City, Virginia, United States.[3] It was built in 1731 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
Theodorick Bland of Westover, Walter Aston, and William Byrd I are buried near the original site of the Westover Church.[4][5] The tomb of Benjamin Harrison IV has also been reported to be on the grounds.[6]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^"Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^Mason, George Carrington (1942). "The Colonial Churches of Charles City County, Virginia". The William and Mary Quarterly. 22 (2): 114–135. doi:10.2307/1925293. JSTOR 1925293.
^Bland, Theodorick (1840). "Appendix". In Campbell, Charles (ed.). The Bland papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. Vol. I. Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin. pp. 145–149.
^"Westover". Virginia's James River Plantations. jamesriverplantations.org. 1996. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
^Bradford, David Thomas (1993). "Philemon and Mary: The Harrisons". The Bradfords of Charles City County, Virginia, and Some of their Descendants, 1653-1993. Gateway Press. p. 84.
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