The settlement was named for Sir John Wolstenholme (1562-1639), one of its investors, and housing consisted of rough cabins of wattle and daub woven on wooden posts thrust into the clay subsoil.

Modern scholarship has questioned this framing and suggested that the campaign was in retaliation for previous violent acts committed by the English.

In the 20th century, separate groups of archaeologists uncovered the sites of both Wolstenholme Towne and Henricus, another settlement founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 also destroyed in the Indian massacre.

However, Minor who never lived in the mansion and made no changes or repairs to Carter's Grove, stopped making payments in 2010 announcing that he owed $12 million in debts.

Repairs have been made to the HVAC system, which has stabilized the temperature within the building and eliminated the damaging mold previously noted.