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Rockledge Mansion, built in 1758 by William Buckland at Occoquan, Prince William County — home of John Ballendine, the founder of Occuquan; Russell House and Store, early 19th-century house and store at Dale City; Sara Myers House, 1790, Old Town District of Fredericksburg; Selma Plantation House, 1811, Loudoun County - Leesburg
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
The Gilliam family arrived in Virginia in the 17th century as indentured servants. By the late 18th century the family had amassed several plantations in the area. Christian was the daughter of Richard Eppes of Appomattox Plantation. Her maternal grandfather was a descendant of Pocahontas, as were many members of the First Families of Virginia ...
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]
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 land grant. The large neo-palladian mansion at "Upper" Bremo was designed by Cocke in consultation with John Neilson, a master joiner for Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. The Historic ...
Clarens or the Clarens Estate is a 19th-century Federal-style mansion in Alexandria, Virginia. [1] [2] Clarens is best known as the residence of James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798–April 28, 1871), [3] [4] a United States representative and United States senator from Virginia and grandson of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale - Richmond, Virginia, oil, 20¾ x 31½ inches Lefevre James Cranstone, Slave Auction, Virginia. Portions of the Randolph's Tuckahoe plantation were subdivided into smaller tracts and sold. Upon completion of an anticipated sale in 1842, enslaved people were to be put up for sale. [34]