Goochland County

LIVING HERE
Goochland is a county of contrasts, with country stores amid corporate headquarters and modest, rural living abutting the estates of some of metro Richmond’s wealthiest families.

Goochland County Historical Society: Library houses books, records, pictures, maps and documents. A nearby stone jail features exhibit on Goochland history from 1700 to 2000.

A SECRET IN GOOCHLAND COUNTY
Goochland Farmer’s Market offers local produce and products each Saturday through October.

Check out these farmers’ markets located in and around Richmond.

Tuckahoe Plantation, seven miles west of Richmond on River Road in Goochland County. Architectural historians consider Tuckahoe the finest existing early-18th-century plantation in America. Built by Thomas Randolph in 1712, grounds include the school where Thomas Jefferson studied.