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Bacon's Castle, also variously known as "Allen's Brick House" or the "Arthur Allen House" is located in Surry County, Virginia, United States, and is the oldest documented brick dwelling in what is now the United States. [4] Built in 1665, it is noted as an extremely rare example of Jacobean architecture in the New World.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Allen was born to merchant Arthur Allen and his second wife, the former Alice Tucker, around 1652. [1] [5] His father had patented 200 acres between Lawnes Creek and Lower Chippoakes Creek in 1649, and by 1665 built a 3-story brick home for his family in what became Surry County, Virginia. [1]
In the 1740s, [10] Smith built the current Windsor Castle estate on his family land. [11] [12] [13] Smith owned at least four enslaved persons during his adulthood. [14] In 1750, Captain Smith petitioned the Virginia General Assembly to dock part of his entailed estate to create a town which he would call "Smithfield."
However, the Surry County court did send provisions to the rebels, despite the objection of 24-year old Arthur Allen II, heir to what later known as Bacon's Castle and future speaker of the House of burgesses. [19] Moreover, Swann was among the signatories of a proclamation dated April 11, 1676 to convene the House of Burgesses that September. [20]