Editing James City County, Virginia (section)

====Wolstenholme Towne, Carter's Grove Plantation====
About this same time, downriver from Jamestown, in the southeastern end of what is now James City County near present-day [[Grove, Virginia|Grove]], a fortified settlement known as [[Wolstenholme Towne]] was established near the river and just east of the confluence of Grove Creek on a land grant known as [[Martin's Hundred]]. However, the population of the town, named for [[Sir John Wolstenholme, 1st Baronet|Sir John Wolstenholme]], a principal of the Martin's Hundred Society investors back in England, was severely decimated during the [[Indian massacre of 1622]], and many men, women and children were killed or abducted. While it was rebuilt, Wolstenholme Towne was eventually abandoned about 1643, and soon even the location was forgotten as it became one of the [[Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia|lost towns of Virginia]].

Over 100 years later, the property had become part of [[Carter's Grove Plantation]], itself built around 1753 by the grandson of [[Robert Carter I|Robert "King" Carter]] of [[Corotoman]], who had become one of the wealthiest planters and served for a period as Virginia's acting governor. Another 200 years later, the long-lost site of Wolstenholme Towne was rediscovered in 1976 during an archaeological dig overseen by [[Ivor Noel Hume]] after the Carter's Grove Plantation property came under the ownership of [[Colonial Williamsburg Foundation]].