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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.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster 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.
Lancaster County was established in 1651 from Northumberland and York counties, and large land patents (subject to terms including clearning and settlement) were issued that year. [3] It was home to Robert King Carter in the 18th century, and remaining buildings from that time include Christ Church and St. Mary's, Whitechapel.
The Lancaster Court House Historic District is a national historic district consisting of 25 structures, including one monument, located in Lancaster, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia. Four of the buildings make up the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library , founded in 1958, whose purpose is to preserve and interpret the history of ...
Lancaster is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States. [2] It is the county seat, and is also known as Lancaster Courthouse or by an alternative spelling, Lancaster Court House. The community was first drawn as a CDP prior to the 2020 census and had a population of 105 at the ...
In 1915 he engaged Waddy Wood of Washington D.C. as architect for the project to greatly enlarge the still standing Bushfield Manor House for his family which now included three daughters (Margaret Woodbridge, Evelyn Pierpont, and Frances) and in 1920 a son, Mark Skinner Willing, Jr. Brick from the old house was used in the partial construction ...
Fisherman named the suspect in 3 cold cases, including 2 of Va.'s 'Colonial Parkway Murders' ... Wilmer died in December 2017 at his Lancaster County, Virginia, home at the age of 63.
Belle Isle is a historic plantation house located near Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia.. A structure was built on the site before 1759 by William Bertand, who died that year and whose father John Betrand had emigrated to Virginia as a Huguenot refugee and patented the land in 1692.