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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
River Farm (25 acres (10 ha)), permanent home to the American Horticultural Society (AHS) headquarters, is a (27 acres (11 ha)) landscape located at 7931 East Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, Virginia. The estate takes its name from a larger plot of land which formed an outlying part of George Washington 's Mount Vernon estate .
The Hayfield Farm Community of Alexandria, Virginia was developed in 1965 by Wills & Van Metre. Hayfield Farm is a subdivision of Fairfax County, Virginia, that has around 690 houses. [1] It is surrounded by Huntley Meadows Park and wooded military facilities. North, adjacent to the community, is a U.S. Coast Guard station off Telegraph Road. [1]
A new day has dawned for Jubilee Justice after the Keller Family, owners of Inglewood Farm, transferred ownership of 17 acres to the non-profit that helps Black farmers become more self-sufficient ...
Arlington Experimental Farm was a former federal agricultural research farm in Alexandria, Virginia that opened in 1900. [1] It was established by an Act of Congress, moving the Department of Agriculture's main research from the National Mall to Arlington.
Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Washington, D.C. Alexandria is the third-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
In the 1890s, Frederick Schwab (a veteran who had served in the Alexandria Artillery also known as Kemper's Battery) was proprietor of a saloon located in the original 1785 tavern portion of Gadsby's Tavern at 132 N. Royal Street (See 132 street number with “Sal.” for Saloon at the site of the 1785 tavern in the 1891, 1896, and 1902 Sanborn Maps of Alexandria, VA.).
Frying Pan Farm Park is a park located in Fairfax County, Virginia.It has a variety of attractions of both a historic and recreational nature. The park contains the Frying Pan Meetinghouse, [1] [2] listed on the National Register of Historic Places and dating from the 18th century, and the Old Floris Schoolhouse, constructed in 1911.