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Southern States Cooperative was founded in 1923 as the Virginia Seed Service by 150 farmers in Richmond, Virginia to help develop seeds. It expanded to distribution of feed in 1925, fertilizer in 1926 and farm supplies and petroleum shortly after. At the time, farmers in Virginia were unable to buy seed guaranteed to grow in the Commonwealth ...
The house and its 1600 acres (6.5 km 2) have been continuously owned by his direct descendants. In the mid-1970s, the residence was restored by President Tyler's grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, and his wife, the current owners. The House, circa 1730, is Virginia Tidewater in architectural design, and is
Built in 1840, the plantation was purchased in 1843 by Edmund Ruffin, a Virginia planter and a pioneer in agricultural improvements; he also published an agricultural journal in the 1840s named the Farmer's Register.
The agency quickly announced a project to artificially plant seedlings from nurseries. But this has raised serious concerns that nursery-grown seedlings can accidentally introduce diseases that ...
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.
Pages in category "Plantation houses in Virginia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 249 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Stony Creek Plantation, also known as Shell House, is a historic plantation house located at DeWitt, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1750, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, center-hall plan house. It would have been built by enslaved African Americans.