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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.
The plantation remained in the Allen family for over two centuries. The house survives with many alterations. Brandon Plantation is located on the south shore of the James River in Prince George County, Virginia. The 5,000-acre (20 km 2) plantation is a working farm and is one of the longest-running agricultural enterprises in the United States.
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. [159] William James (1791–1861), English Radical politician and owner of a West Indies plantation. [160]
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
A Virginia lawyer, plantation owner and prewar Whig delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates for Nottoway County, Booth Sr. spent much of the war based in Philadelphia with his second wife and providing assistance to Confederate prisoners. [10] Both his sons who reached adulthood had been Confederate officers, Archer Jones Booth dying in ...
Sharswood Plantation, also known as Sharswood Manor Estate, is a historic plantation house in Gretna, Virginia. Prior to the American Civil War , Sharswood operated as a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation under the ownership of Charles Edwin Miller and Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller.
The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...
Bremo, also known as Bremo Plantation or Bremo Historic District, is a plantation estate covering over 1,500 acres (610 ha) on the west side of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The plantation includes three separate estates, all created in the 19th century by the planter, soldier, and reformer John Hartwell Cocke on his family's 1725 ...