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Is there someone with expertise about Virginia? I'm trying to write an article about "Screamersville", a ghost town in Chesterfield County about 20 miles southeast of Richmond. However, there are many sources pointing to another "Screamersville" located on the river in Richmond, which was a site for many pre-Civil War brothels and taverns. If anyone can help sort this out I'd appreciate it. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:03, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See Draft:Hickory Flats. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 21:06, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chantilly Plantation was built by Cornelia Lee Turberville and her husband Charles Calvert Stuart. She was born at Leeton - the home of the Turbervilles still standing on Walney Road in Chantilly. Cornelia named Chantilly after her grandfather's plantation (Richard Henry Lee) of the same name in Westmoreland Co. VA. Chantilly plantation was burned by the Union forces and the property sold at auction some few years later by Cornelia's son. (I have the original papers for the sale). My husband and I own Leeton which was a 5,000 acre plantation in 1727 and now is just 2.5 acres. The house that is shown on this page and called Chantilly is not Chantilly, but Sully Plantation built by Richard Bland Lee. Sully was called the "sister plantation" to Leeton since brother and sister owned the two plantations. The only structure left of Chantilly plantation is the stone building on Rt. 50. Richard Henry Lee, my 5th great grandfather, was said to have visited a chateau in France called Chantilly, loved the name and so named his plantation Chantilly in Westmoreland County. All of these facts are in my two volume set of books I wrote and published called The Turbervilles of Virginia. I put copies of the auction and sale of Chantilly and also a description of the plantation. Dr. Tricia Petitt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.250.253 (talk) 19:16, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]