Jennie Dotts, a real estate agent with Long & Foster’s Grove office in Richmond, has built a reputation for helping clients buy or sell, restore and preserve distinctive historic properties—from railroad stations and foundries to barns and churches. While each project has been memorable, none has been as meaningful as her recent work with the Pamunkey Indian Tribe.

In May, Dotts represented the Tribe in its $1.95 million purchase of Windsor Shades, a 13-acre estate overlooking the Pamunkey River in West Point, Virginia. The site was once home to a Pamunkey village before being granted around 1640 to an English settler for defeating the tribe in battle. His descendants later built the home’s main residence in the mid-1700s. George Washington frequented the property’s tavern and ferry crossing, using the crossing during the Yorktown campaign that helped secure American independence. Today, the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is exploring ways to transform the property into a center for cultural, educational and economic opportunities.

“It’s profoundly meaningful that this property is returning to the Pamunkey tribe,” Dotts said in a recent article in The Washington Post that has since been republished by several news outlets. “It was their land originally, and now it is theirs once again. That’s a satisfying sense of history coming full circle.”

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