Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Flowerdew Hundred dates to 1618–19 with the patent of 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) on the south side of the James River in Virginia. Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, may have named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. Their primary residence was in Jamestown when Sir George called the first ...
Carter's Grove, also known as Carter's Grove Plantation, is a 750-acre (300 ha) plantation located on the north shore of the James River in the Grove Community of southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States.
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.
Jordan Point (or Jordan's Point) is a small unincorporated community on the south bank of the James River in the northern portion of Prince George County, Virginia, United States. It is about 20 miles from Richmond and 30 miles upstream from Jamestown on the James River. It was the location of extensive archeological research between 1987 and 1993.
Powell's Creek shown on the Fry-Jefferson map (1752) between Jordan's Point and the Maycox (Maycock) Plantation. Maycock Plantation, also known as Maycock's Plantation and Maycox Plantation, among the first plantations on the south side of the James River in Prince George County, Virginia, was settled by Samuel Maycock about 1618 or 1619, during the early Colonial period of Virginia. [1]
Elk Island, located in Goochland County, Virginia near Cartersville, is an island [1] on the James River and across from the former Elk Hill plantation at the mouth of Byrd Creek. [2] The island, one mile by five miles, [3] is accessed by Elk Island Road (Virginia State Route 603). [4] [5] [a]
Curles Neck Plantation (also known as Curles Neck Farm) is located between State Route 5 and the north bank of the James River in the Varina district of Henrico County, Virginia. One of the great James River Plantations, Curles Neck has remained in active use for almost 400 years and remains a privately owned working farm which is not currently ...
SR 106 north / SR 156 north (Jordan Point Road) to SR 5 – Charles City, Williamsburg, Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge, James River plantations: Eastern end of SR 106 / SR 156 concurrency: Garysville: SR 609 (Old Stage Road) – Prince George: former SR 106 south SR 625 (Hines Road) former SR 154 south: Surry: Spring Grove: 47.34: 76.19