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Bacon's Castle webpage on the Preservation Virginia website; Bacon's Castle Facebook webpage; National Park Service, a brief history of Bacon's Castle; Bacon's Castle, State Route 617, Surry, Surry County, VA: 46 photos, 3 color transparencies, 22 measured drawings, 8 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Bacon's Castle, 1665, Surry County — only Jacobean great houses in the U.S., used as a stronghold in Bacon's Rebellion [1] Ball-Sellers House (Arlington, Virginia) built in 1742 by John Ball, owned by the Arlington Historical Society. [2]
Bacon's Castle, Surry County, Virginia. Built in 1665, Bacon's Castle, originally known as the Arthur Allen Brick House, is British North America's oldest brick structure, North America's only surviving example of Jacobean architecture, and has North America's oldest, preserved 17th-century English formal garden.
Bacon's Castle: 10: Pleasant Point: Pleasant Point: July 16, 1976 : 1 mile south of Scotland on Pleasant Point Rd. Scotland: 11: Rich Neck Farm: Rich Neck Farm: May 19, 1980 : East of Surry on Chippokes Farm Rd.
However, contrary to popular folklore, Bacon never lived at Bacon's Castle, nor is he even known to have ever visited it. Today Bacon's Castle is an historic house museum and historic site open for guest visitation. Bacon's Castle is an official Preservation Virginia historic site and operates under its 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit status.
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Old Brick Church (Lower Church, Southwark Parish) variously known as the Lawnes Creek Parish Church or the Lower Surry Church is a historic church in Bacon's Castle, Virginia. The lower chapel of the Southwark Parish was a brick rectangular room church built in 1754 about a mile northwest of Bacon's Castle, in Surry County, Virginia.
A decade later it became known as Bacon's Castle because it was occupied as a fort or "castle" during Bacon's Rebellion against the Royal Governor, Sir William Berkeley. (Nathaniel Bacon never lived at Bacon's Castle, but rather at Curles Neck Plantation in Henrico County, about 30 miles upriver on the James River's northern bank).