Welcome To Chesterfield County Real Estate & General Information
The history of Chesterfield County is long. Prior to English colonization, this area was occupied by Native Americans . After Jamestown was established in 1607, English settlers & explorers began settling other areas of Virginia, including an area of what is known as Chesterfield that was to include a college to educate Indians as well as the children of settlers. In 1749, the legislature passed an act that separated Chesterfield County from Henrico County. Chesterfield County also played a major part in the Civil War, and throughout the county you will find many historic sites from the Civil War.
In 2004, Chesterfield County was named the “17th Best Place to Live in America” by the American City Business Journal.
There are over 20 parks and trails in the county, including Dutch Gap Conservation Area (an 809 acre conservation area with bottomland forest, wetlands, ponds, meadows and more), Rockwood Nature Center, which has a live snake & turtle exhibit, and Henricus Historical Park, which is where Pocahontas resided at when she converted to Christianity and was courted by John Smith.
Schools in the county have consistently ranked very high and in addition to the neighborhood high schools, the students can choose to apply to attend a specialty center or a regional governor’s school based on their individual interests & talents.
Chesterfield County has a number of unincorporated towns & communities, including:
Bon Air: A designated National Historic District with Victorian homes from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Chester: A bedroom community with a “village” feeling and a new central area that has some retail, a library and townhomes/condos & single family homes.
Midlothian: Once a coal mining village, it is now an outlying suburban community. When the Swift Creek Reservoir was created, water & sewer service accelerated residential growth here.
Chesterfield County offers lots of options for everyone, from more rural areas near the Pocohantas State Forest to large planned communities like Woodlake, Brandermill and Charter Colony, to older neighborhoods with all different housing styles (ranchers, tri-levels, cape cods, Colonials) to newer neighborhoods with traditional, contemporary & more open floor plans, as well as many condo & townhome communities.