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Oatlands, 1804, Loudoun County - Plantation belonging to the Carters of Virginia, a National Trust Historic Site; Old Mansion, c. 1669, Caroline County - home of the Hoome family; The Peyton Randolph House, 1715, Williamsburg—home of Peyton Randolph; Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation, c. 1790, Charles City County - home of the Southall family
Located on Belleville Lane. It seems little research has been conducted on this historic plantation. Some traditional sources, [2] as well as the Virginia Department of Historic Resources ascribe a date of 1658. Broad Bay Manor: Virginia Beach: 1640 c. or 1660 c. Purportedly the oldest extant European-built house in the southeastern United States.
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. [1] [2] [3]
Virginia House is a manor house on a hillside overlooking the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.. The house was constructed from the materials of the 16th-century Priory House, Warwick in Warwickshire, England, and shipped over and reassembled, completed several months before the stock market crash of 1929.
Abingdon Historic District is a national historic district ... Martha Washington Inn, Barter Theatre, the Virginia House, Alexander Findlay House (1827), Gabriel ...
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) and the U.S. National Park ...
Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District, is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 89 buildings. It encompasses 89 buildings. It is located in the primarily residential section of Portsmouth and includes a notable collection of Federal and Greek Revival style townhouses, known as "basement houses."