w.w. reasor of the reasor corporation, a virginia beach development company, bought the plantation. despite rumored plans to construct houses on the parcel, reasor continued to lease the land to the mitchells until his death in 1999. his widow, lucy reasor, donated walnut valley plantation to the state of virginia in 2004, when it joined chippokes plantation state park, with which it had shared a border. descendants of the mitchell family continued to farm the land until 2016.