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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.
Tar Bay One of only a few brick homes built on the south bank of the James during the colonial period, the Tar Bay mansion was a high style Georgian plantation house built in 1746 by Daniel Colley on a bluff overlooking a broad reach of the James just west of Coggins Point known as Tar Bay. The house was a two-story five-bay, hip-roofed brick ...
Indian Banks is a historic home and archaeological site located near Simonson, Richmond County, Virginia. It was built in 1699, and is a two-story, five-bay, Colonial era brick dwelling with a hipped roof and interior end chimneys. The front facade features bricks that are molded or carved into a wavy pattern.
The house was later renamed Kinhega Plantation. ... consists of 15 lots along the bay and 15 lots behind those. ... who had bought the 500-acre former Indian Head Plantation in 1947 and gave the ...
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
1769 1,000 acre Menokin plantation a wedding gift from Colonel John Tayloe II. 1769 Menokin plans completed and mansion construction begun. 1769-1776 Francis Lee represents Richmond County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. 1771 Francis and Rebecca Lee move into Menokin. 1775-1779 Francis Lee a member of the Continental Congress.
Indian Bay is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southern Monroe County, Arkansas, United States, in the Arkansas Delta. Indian Bay is on the eastern bank of the White River, 4 miles (6 km) east of St. Charles. [4] For purposes of the U.S. Census, Indian Bay is within Montgomery-Smalley Township.
It was the second settlement in Massachusetts, predating the Massachusetts Bay Colony by six years. [3] Historian Charles Francis Adams Jr. referred to the colony as "ill-conceived, ill-executed, ill-fated". [4] It is best remembered for the battle in late March 1623 [5] between Plymouth troops led by Myles Standish and an Indian force led by ...