It is now a museum property, open to the public.

Among the many American "firsts" that occurred at Berkeley Plantation are:

* In 1619 settlers celebrated the first annual Thanksgiving celebration after landing at Berkeley Hundred.
* In 1862 the Army bugle call "Taps" was first played, by bugler Oliver W. Norton; the melody was written at Harrison's Landing, the plantation's old wharf, by Norton and General Daniel Butterfield.

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