The family patriarch, Edmund Ruffin, is often credited with firing the first shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter.

Evelynton was the site of fierce Civil War skirmishes in 1862, when General George McClellan waged his destructive Peninsula Campaign; J.E.B.

Stuart, Stonewall Jackson and John Pelham led the Southern offensive in the Battle of Evelynton Heights.

Lee had completed a restoration of Carters Grove in Williamsburg, overseen the expansion of the Virginia Governor's mansion, and designed fourteen of the stately homes along Monument Avenue.

This article about a property in Charles City County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.