[1] William Allason, merchant, of Falmouth, Virginia, established North Wales as a plantation and built the original Georgian-style stone house on the property sometime during the 1776–1796 period.

It remained a working plantation and farm for six generations of descendents of Allason and his wife Anne Hooe.

[1] The estate on 1,471 acres was sold to former Goldman Sachs partner David B. Ford September 30, 2014 for $21 Million.

[4] Ford has acquired other historic properties including the noted record-breaking purchase of Newport, RI Gilded Age mansion Miramar by architect Horace Trumbauer, for $17.15 million in 2006.

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