William Randolph patented the Edgehill plantation just to the north in 1735. His grandson Thomas Mann Randolph married Thomas Jefferson's daughter Martha, acquired Edgehill in 1792, and later became governor of Virginia. The couple built a frame house about 1799 but lived mainly at nearby Monticello. Their son Thomas Jefferson Randolph erected a brick residence in 1828. Enslaved African Americans lived and worked at Edgehill. Martha Jefferson Randolph and her family operated a school for girls there, and its successor, established after the Civil War, became a highly regarded women's academy. The main house burned in 1916 but was rebuilt using the original walls.