American Rehab, Virginia: Mount Airy Plantation

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The Northern Neck of Virginia is known for the plantation homes of the Washingtons and Lees. But just up the road in Warsaw, their close friend and fellow patriot John Tayloe II was a successful businessman whose Mount Airy Plantation has been the private home of the Tayloe family for more 250 years. Now, it’s latest generation of owners, John Tayloe Emery and his wife Catherine are opening it’s doors to the public in some unusual ways. Pamela D’Angelo reports.

  1. #1 by suzisart on July 11, 2015 - 5:06 pm

    My two sisters-in-law are Tayloes. They will be happy to see this!

  2. #2 by Lindsay Payne on August 16, 2015 - 2:49 pm

    I love watching your renovation of your highly historical home. One of your episodes showing the counting house had the Texas flag on the door, which was later put in the finished man cave & I was wondering being from Texas & all….where the Texas connection came from?

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