Holiday Sip & Savor Tour

Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 3:00pm

Join the Carters and the Erdas to celebrate the holidays in their historic 18th Century homes along the James River in Charles City, Virginia. They will each host a guided tour highlighting their home and property's history, showcase their family decorations, and offer a sampling of their favorite wines paired with a combination of savory and sweet hors d'oeuvres. $100 per person.

Email aerda@historicwestover.com to book or to inquire about booking as a private event.

Must be 21 years or older to partake in wine tastings. Please be prepared to show a valid ID at both homes.

Space is limited.

Virginia's Historic Garden Week

Sunday-Monday, April 19+20, 2026

Open together, visitors will enjoy a special combo ticket to three historic properties that have been part of Historic Garden Week since the first tours in 1929. The tour includes access to the extensive grounds, gardens, numerous outbuildings, and first-floor interiors of Historic Berkeley, Shirley, and Westover, as well as nearby Westover Episcopal Church. Nestled along the James River, off scenic Route 5 in bucolic Charles City County, they were settled in the early 1600s as tobacco plantations, with Westover Church serving as the local parish. Their recorded histories date back over 400 years and are interwoven with stories of the earliest indigenous people, European settlers and indentured servants, enslaved Africans, and their descendants through the colonization, founding, fighting, and reconstruction of the United States of America. Virginia and National Historic Landmarks, they are working farms, private homes, and living links to our country’s past.

PURCHASE TICKETS

A list of retail outlets will be available in mid-February 2026
Historic Garden Week