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Designated VLR. April 15, 1980 [2] Windsor is a historic plantation complex located near Cascade, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. The house was completed in 1862, and is a two-story, five-bay Georgian style brick dwelling, with Italianate style ornamentation. It has a shallow hipped roof and double-pile, central-hall plan.
Cascade, Virginia. Coordinates: 36°33′52″N 79°40′11″W. Cascade is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. Windsor was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]
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. [1] [2] [3]
Along with the Byrds, Carters, Washingtons, Harrisons and others, these families were at the core of Virginia's plantocracy for centuries. First Families of Virginia were families in the British colony of Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. [1] They descend from European colonists who ...
Adam Miller (pioneer) With residency beginning in 1727, Adam Miller (Mueller) is recognized as the first permanent white settler in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, US. [1][2][3][4] Born in 1703 in Schriesheim, Germany, Miller immigrated to America as a young married man, settling in Lancaster County, PA in 1724. [5][6][7]
400 feet (120 m) Crabtree Falls is one of the tallest sets of waterfalls in the United States east of the Mississippi River. It is located in the George Washington National Forest in Nelson County, Virginia, off of Virginia State Route 56. The name of the falls is thought to have come from William Crabtree, who settled in this part of Virginia ...
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
October 9, 1960. (#66000849) Bacon's Castle. 37°06′32″N 76°43′20″W / 37.1088°N 76.7222°W / 37.1088; -76.7222 (Bacon's Castle) Surry. One of the oldest brick buildings in Virginia. 4. Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery. Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery.