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Rural Plains, also informally known as Shelton House, is a historic farm house dating to the 1660s in Mechanicsville, Virginia, Hanover County; it is one of the sites included within the Richmond National Battlefield Park. [3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [4]
Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. The population was 39,482 during the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 36,348 in the 2010 census .
September 22, 1971 (U.S. Route 301: Hanover: 15: Hanover Meeting House: Hanover Meeting House: September 4, 1991 (6411 Heatherwood Dr. [6 Mechanicsville: Site of the first non-Anglican church in Virginia
A failed attempt by Grant to lure Lee into open terrain. The Confederates were securely entrenched behind the creek, and resisted all assaults. The splendid mansion of Rural Plains survived much bombardment. Tour of Rural Plains (Shelton House). Cold Harbor
The Rural Plains, located on the grounds of the Richmond National Battlefield Park in Hanover County. Located in the western Tidewater region of Virginia, Hanover County was created on November 26, 1719, from the area of New Kent County called St. Peter's Parish.
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The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1] There are 99 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 7 National Historic Landmarks. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
After Rev. George Whitefield preached at Bruton Parish Church at Williamsburg during the First Great Awakening, and his sermons were published, local mason Samuel Morris built a reading room or log cabin near Mechanicsville in rural Hanover County. In 1743, Virginia's colonial assembly permitted religious dissenters four meeting houses: three ...