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Oatlands Historic House and Gardens (formerly Oatlands Plantation) is an estate located in Leesburg, Virginia, United States.Oatlands is operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark.
Kippax Plantation was located on the south bank of the Appomattox River in what is today the City of Hopewell in southeast Virginia. Kippax Plantation was the home of Colonel Robert Bolling (1646–1709). Bolling married Jane Rolfe, who was the granddaughter of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.
The Gravensteen (Dutch; lit. ' the Counts' rock ') is a medieval castle in the city of Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium. The current castle dates from 1180 and was the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353. It was subsequently re-purposed as a court, prison, mint, and even as a cotton factory.
Chesterfield, Virginia: ca. 1768 Built by Thomas Jefferson's wife's brother in law and first cousin, Frances Eppes. Jefferson's daughters came to Eppington to live while he was Minister to France. Lucy Elizabeth died at and is buried here. Battersea: Petersburg, Virginia: 1768 Built for Colonel Jonn Banister, signer of the Articles of Confederation
The Seven Islands Archeological and Historic District encompasses a 312-acre (126 ha) site near the confluence of the James and Slate Rivers in Buckingham and Fluvanna Counties in Virginia. The site is notable for a number of prehistoric archaeological sites, the largest of which is a Woodland period Native American site, while smaller sites ...
Cocke's third great grandfather, Richard Cocke, immigrated to Virginia by 1627 and amassed almost 11,000 acres of land (including the plantations Bremo, Malvern Hill, and Curles) by the time he died in 1866. Old Bremo passed to Richard's descendants before it was sold out of the Cocke family in the late 18th century or early 19th century.
English: Photograph of the Gravensteen in Ghent, around 1880-1890. The factory stacks are still there. Date: circa 1880-1890: Source:
Rokeby is a Georgian house near Leesburg, Virginia, built in the mid-18th century.The house is the best example of Georgian architecture in Loudoun County.Rokeby served as a repository for U.S. Government documents during the British occupation and burning of Washington in 1814 during the War of 1812.