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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.
The plantation remained in the Allen family for over two centuries. The house survives with many alterations. Brandon Plantation is located on the south shore of the James River in Prince George County, Virginia. The 5,000-acre (20 km 2) plantation is a working farm and is one of the longest-running agricultural enterprises in the United States.
Land use has for more than 200 years been almost entirely agricultural; there are no villages or commercial centers. The main structures in the district are farmhouses and agricultural outbuildings; the district notably includes the previously-listed Waveland plantation. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Danzas was founded in 1815 and was originally based in Saint-Louis, Alsace, France. [3] Louis Danzas fought at Waterloo for Napoleon. After that battle, he joined a transport company owned by Michel l'Eveque and by 1840 became joint owner. The company, Danzas, and l'Eveque, obtained a mail delivery franchise from Le Havre to New York City in ...
Green Hill is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Long Island, Campbell County, Virginia.The main house is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a gable roof, modillioned cornice and two interior end chimneys.
Bremo, also known as Bremo Plantation or Bremo Historic District, is a plantation estate covering over 1,500 acres (610 ha) on the west side of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The plantation includes three separate estates, all created in the 19th century by the planter, soldier, and reformer John Hartwell Cocke on his family's 1725 ...
Monticola is a historic plantation home and farm located along the James River near Howardsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built in 1853 for planter, merchant and banker Daniel James Hartsook, and is a three-story, three-bay, brick Greek Revival style dwelling. The front facade features a central, two-story, pedimented portico.
Falkland is a historic plantation house located at Redd Shop, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was built about 1750, and the frame dwelling consists of a two-story, four-bay, central block with one-story flanking wings. It has a hall-and-parlor plan. A two-story, two-bay frame rear ell was added in the 1850s. [3]