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Monticola is a historic plantation home and farm located along the James River near Howardsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built in 1853 for planter, merchant and banker Daniel James Hartsook, and is a three-story, three-bay, brick Greek Revival style dwelling. The front facade features a central, two-story, pedimented portico.
In 1828, East Belmont won the first year of the Albemarle Agricultural Society's competition for "the best regulated plantation." [ 1 ] [ d ] He was a slaveholder, [ 4 ] whose farm was very profitable. [ 12 ]
Blenheim is a historic home and farm complex located at Blenheim, Albemarle County, Virginia.The once very large surrounding plantation was established by John Carter.Late in the 18th century, his son Edward Carter became the county's largest landowner, and in addition to public duties including service in the Virginia General Assembly built a mansion on this plantation where he and his family ...
Date listed Date removed Location City or town Description 1: Enniscorthy: September 24, 1992 (#92001273) March 20, 2001: VA 627 .5 miles (0.80 km) south of the junction with VA 712: Keene: Delisted due to extensive alterations.
Castle Hill (Virginia) is an historic, privately owned, 600-acre (243 ha) plantation located at the foot of the Southwest Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia, near Monticello and the city of Charlottesville, and is recognized by the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
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 current two-story, brick main house dates from 1828, and was rebuilt in 1916, after a fire gutted the interior. Thomas Jefferson Randolph , one of Randolph Jr.'s sons who became Thomas Jefferson 's favorite grandson and beneficiary of his papers as well as executor of his estate, acquired his debt-ridden father's estate (house, land and ...
Lewis also served on the Albemarle jury in 1785. [2] [19] A prosperous plantation owner, he had thousands of acres and several farms. [20] In 1782 Lewis inherited 1500 acres and other property from his father's estate, on which he built a large new home on a bluff overlooking the river; he named the estate Monteagle or Mt. Eagle.