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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.
On a hill near the water's edge a handsome old house overlooks the river. This plantation, was the seat of the Browne family for two hundred years. The first owner, Colonel Henry Browne, was a member of Sir William Berkeley's Council in 1643. The manor house constructed circa 1745 remains well-preserved in its original historical state.
In 1769 Thomas Jefferson placed an advertisement in the Virginia Gazette offering a reward for an escaped slave named Sandy. Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), 7th President of the United States, he enslaved as many as 300 people. [162] William James (1791–1861), English Radical politician and owner of a West Indies plantation. [163]
Salisbury (Chesterfield County, Virginia) Salona (McLean, Virginia) Scotchtown (plantation) Selma (Leesburg, Virginia) Slate Hill Plantation; Smithfield (Blacksburg, Virginia) Smithfield Plantation (Fredericksburg, Virginia) Tazewell M. Starkey; Stoke (Loudoun County, Virginia) Sully Historic Site; Summerville Plantation
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.
Varina Farms, also known as Varina Plantation or Varina Farms Plantation or Varina on the James, is a plantation established in the 17th century on the James River about 10 miles (16 km) south of Richmond, Virginia. [3] An 820-acre (330 ha) property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as "Varina