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In 1828, East Belmont won the first year of the Albemarle Agricultural Society's competition for "the best regulated plantation." [ 1 ] [ d ] He was a slaveholder, [ 4 ] whose farm was very profitable. [ 12 ]
Blenheim is a historic home and farm complex located at Blenheim, Albemarle County, Virginia.The once very large surrounding plantation was established by John Carter.Late in the 18th century, his son Edward Carter became the county's largest landowner, and in addition to public duties including service in the Virginia General Assembly built a mansion on this plantation where he and his family ...
Date listed Date removed Location City or town Description 1: Enniscorthy: September 24, 1992 (#92001273) March 20, 2001: VA 627 .5 miles (0.80 km) south of the junction with VA 712: Keene: Delisted due to extensive alterations.
Monticola is a historic plantation home and farm located along the James River near Howardsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built in 1853 for planter, merchant and banker Daniel James Hartsook, and is a three-story, three-bay, brick Greek Revival style dwelling. The front facade features a central, two-story, pedimented portico.
Castle Hill (Virginia) is an historic, privately owned, 600-acre (243 ha) plantation located at the foot of the Southwest Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Monticello and the city of Charlottesville, and is recognized by the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
The farm provided corn, wheat, rye, and barley for the Monticello plantation. [1] [5] While he was president (1801–1809), Jefferson leased the farm to John Craven, who grew tobacco. [2] Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, managed the farm beginning in 1817. [1] That year, Randolph added a stone wing to the log cabin.
John Carter had patented (claimed) 9350 acres of land immediately south of Monticello plantation in Albemarle County in 1730. John Carter also acquired 10,000 acres in Amherst County . Both parcels would become Edward's inheritance, and he acquired additional adjacent land in Albemarle County, on which he built a house known as "Blenheim".
Edgemont, also known as Cocke Farm, is a historic home located near Covesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built about 1796, and is a one- to two-story, three-bay, frame structure in the Jeffersonian style. It measures 50 feet by 50 feet, and sits on a stuccoed stone exposed basement. The house is topped by a hipped roof surmounted by ...