Residents are worried that a developer’s plans to build around the remnants of an 18th-century plantation could be ...

GRETNA, Va. — There was so much Fredrick ... Of the 58 total, 31 were female. There were 12 houses for enslaved people on the plantation, determined Doug Sanford, a retired professor of historic ...

The state of Virginia just under 500,000 ... Miller unwittingly purchased what he now knows to be the Sharswood Plantation House -- with slave quarters just behind it -- he knew virtually nothing ...

Mention Virginia plantations and you are talking about a ... The flourishing plantation lands, the outstanding architecture of the manor houses, the exquisite beauty of the gardens and landscaping ...

Virginia, they say ... handsome woodwork and wide-plank flooring. “A plantation house, but not overwhelming,” Foster says. “Big, even in today’s world, but not grandiose.” ...

GREAT HOPES PLANTATION, Va. -- A visit to Colonial Williamsburg ... It also pales in comparison to the showcase Peyton Randolph House, a large re-created urban plantation with 27 slaves.

The Virginia plantation house where Gen. Robert E. Lee lived before he abandoned it to lead the Confederate army during the Civil War has reopened after a multimillion-dollar renovation that ...

The plantation house is considered among the finest examples of Georgian architecture in Virginia and among the best in the U.S. It features dazzling brick and fine wood flourishes by Old World ...

The restorers of Menokin, the Virginia plantation house of Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, have now found a third way. By embedding the wreck in a shell of ...

is a 2,900-acre community that includes approximately 2,400 homes. The plantation was once the home of Lewis Burwell III, a colonist who was a politician and served as acting governor of Virginia ...