Born to Spence Monroe and his wife, Eliza Jones, young James Monroe came into this middle-class family and lived the largest part of his life here on a 500-acre peach and apple orchard plantation.  This rebuilt home is designed to the specifications of the original blueprint and save for the necessary modern convenience for purpose of preservation and security, the Birthplace Home is an exact replica of the original home.  Within this new home, volunteers will offer a room-to-room tour and convey to you the upbringing and lifestyle of a young colonial gentleman.

When Monroe sold the property, he reported the following:
”For SALE, the fifth of January next...About 500 acres of land in Westmoreland county on Monroe’s creek, within a mile and a half of Potowmack river. It is perfectly level and rich; has standing on it, a quantity of valuable oak timber, adjoins the creek, large marshes which with part of the adjoining land, may be turned into a good meadow. There are also on the tract, a dwelling house with a passage and several rooms below and above, with a kitchen, barn, stables, and other necessary out-houses... (Virginia Gazette, Richmond: Purdie and Dixon, No. 94, 23 Dec 1780).”