Colonial National Historical Park - Ringfield Plantation
Hatch CE. 1970. Colonial National Historical Park - Ringfield Plantation. Office of History and Historic Architecture
This report contains history of the Ringfield Plantation. The story of Ringfield area actually covers a two hundred year span from frontier, through settlement and development into the plantation economy, then reversion to general nineteenth century farming, and finally into a sort of quiet sanctuary status in late years. Its history has close ties with both Jamestown and York County in the seventeenth century and with Yorktown in the eighteenth. The mansion house built, from all indications and by almost general agreement, by Joseph Ring after 1692 and before 1698, stood as a veritable landmark from then until it burned in 1920. Prior to the Rings there were the Felgates and Underhills who lived on the land for some 60 years and evidences of their occupancy likely lay buried on the site. It all constitutes an intricate, rewarding, and revealing story.