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Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest, Virginia, United States, that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president.Jefferson inherited the property in 1773 and began designing and working on his retreat home in 1806.
Rosemont, also known as Rosemont Plantation, Poplar Grove or Hale House, was built in 1814 in Woodville, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 [2] and designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1987. [1] The house is the family and boyhood home of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America ...
The Morgan-Bedinger-Dandridge House — first known as Poplar Grove, then Rosebrake or Rose Brake — is part of a group of structures affiliated with the Morgan's Grove rural historic district near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The property was known as "Poplar Grove" until 1877.
Poplar Forest, note the octagonal design. One characteristic which typifies Jefferson's architecture is the use of the octagon and octagonal forms in his designs. Palladio never used octagons, but Jefferson employed them as a design motif—halving them, elongating them, and employing them in whole as with the dome of Monticello, or the entire house at Poplar Forest.
Poplar Grove Plantation: December 14, 1987: Port Allen: West Baton Rouge: Former sugar plantation from the 1820s, manor house built in 1884 for the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans. [8] 01000943 Residence Plantation House: September 8, 2001: Houma Terrebonne 79001064 Richland Plantation: March 28, 1979 ...
Poplar Grove Plantation (Louisiana) Poplar Grove (Scotts Hill, North Carolina), or Poplar Grove Plantation; Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia; Poplar Grove Mill and House, Williams, Virginia; Poplar Grove, battle location on the Modder River, South Africa, about ten miles upstream of Paardeberg.
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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.