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Endview Plantation (Harwood Plantation) is an 18th-century plantation, including a park and historic home now operated by the independent city of Newport News, Virginia, located on Virginia State Route 238 in the Lee Hall community.
Location of Newport News in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport News, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Newport News, Virginia, United States.
Their father established Endview Plantation in 1769 (which this man would operate for decades) [2] as well as represented Warwick county for three decades in the Virginia General Assembly, including in the House of Burgesses, five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions and the first session of the Virginia House of Delegates before dying in ...
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.
Some of these included Marie’s Mount, the Newport News (Parker West) Farm at present-day 18th Street and Harbor Road, Blunt Poynt, Denbigh Plantation, Windmill Point, Bolthorpe Plantation, Celey's, Richneck Plantation, Stanley Hundred, Bourbon, Endview Plantation, Lee Hall Mansion, Cedar Grove, Briarfield and others. In 1704 there were just ...
Endview was used as a hospital during the Civil War and as a campground during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Lee Hall Depot was a railroad station on the Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), which was built through the area of Warwick County in 1881 to reach the new coal export facilities at ...
The parks are scattered throughout the city, from Endview Plantation in the northern end of the city to King-Lincoln Park in the southern end near the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel. The parks offer a variety of services to visitors, ranging from traditional park services like camping and fishing to activities like archery and disc golf
William Harwood (d. Sept. 1780) was a militia colonel, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia.He represented Warwick County in the House of Burgesses for more than three decades (mostly with his neighbor William Digges) beginning in 1752), as well as during all five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions (although no record actually exists of his presence during the 2nd and 3rd ...