At Belle Grove Plantation, history graduate student Peggy Dillard produced a guide for the Furnishings and Collection Committee to help refurnish the interior of the 
mansion to match as closely as possible the Hite family’s early 19th-century period of occupancy. As part of a summer internship at Belle Grove Plantation, Peggy researched eighteenth- and nineteenth-century probate inventories and other documents and compared them with existing furnishings to help the museum determine how the rooms were originally furnished.
Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, VA