The boyhood home and lifelong property of John Dickinson, a framer and signer of the U.S. Constitution known as the "Penman of the Revolution," the plantation was also home to generations of enslaved, indentured, and free Black people who worked its fields along the St. Jones River. Dickinson freed the enslaved people he held in 1786, decades ahead of national emancipation, but the site's interpretation today centers on the tenant farmers, indentured servants, and enslaved families who lived and died there. In 2021, archaeologists identified an African burial ground on the property, and ongoing research continues to recover the names and stories of those buried there.