Today on the Grave Talks, Haunted Tuckahoe.

Originally constructed in 1774, Taka Ho was constructed as a single room building.

Over the next century, it would soon grow into one of the largest plantations in Virginia.

It would see several owners in its continuing lifetime and hundreds of enslaved souls

come and go from its property lines before it would eventually discontinue its activity as a working

plantation.

Into the 1900s, Takahoe would eventually fall into disrepair and then revived as not only a

historical property, but continue to be a family home, a home inhabited not only by the living,

but by the dead as well.

Today we learn its history with Holt Solzgiver on the Grave Talks.

All the way back to the beginning, well, you know, I hear tell that the entire chain of the

Blue Ridge Mountains was underwater for a long period of time.

It's a mountain chain that goes all the way from what is now America, all the way through

Ireland.

That's way too far back.

A long time ago, you know, before colonists even touched this earth with their feet,

Richmond was a really interesting area.

It was kind of the converging place of three separate Native American tribes.

The two that had the strongest hold on the place was the Monachian nation who kind of really had control over most of what is now of Virginia for a really long time.

And as well as then from here, east to the coast was the Powhatan.

And from kind of this point south, it was the Nottwe Nation.

And so this area of land that Takahoe is on in the Richmond area,

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