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Planning & Information Systems
Richmond Regional
PDC Richmond, VA 23235 Phone: 804.323.2033 Fax: 804.323.2025
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Bolling Island
SA-11 DUNGENESS: "Seven miles south once stood Dungeness, built about 1730 by Isham Randolph (1685-1742) who was the grandfather of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and of James Pleasants, Governor of Virginia. Sea captain, merchant and planter, Randolph also served as Virginia's agent in London and adjutant general of the colony."
SA-35 BOLLING HALL: Bolling Hall, to the south, was built in the late 18th century for William Bolling on land patented by his grandfather in 1714. Col. Bolling served as a county justice, militia officer, and legislator, and founded a pioneer school there for the education of deaf children. Remodeled extensively in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. Bolling Hall retains its elegant woodwork, its rural setting on the James River, and its historical function as a farm."
SA-36 BOLLING ISLAND: "Bolling Island mansion, overlooking an island of that name, stands at a bend of the James River to the south. John Bolling purchased the land in 1717. Begun about 1771, the house was completed in the late 1830s by Thomas Bolling, son of Col. William Bolling, of Bolling Hall. The principle features of the house are a two-story, Greek Revival-style portico on its south front, and several original outbuildings that stand behind it. Bolling Island remained in the Bolling family until 1870."
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