Brandon Plantation (Halifax County, Virginia)
Brandon Plantation | |
 Overview from the north | |
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| Location | Coleman Drive, 500 feet west of its junction with Henderson Road, Alton, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°34′45″N 79°07′16″W / 36.57917°N 79.12111°W |
| Area | 141 acres (57 ha) |
| Built | c. 1800, 1842 |
| Built by | Thomas Day |
| Architectural style | Early Republic, Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 96000495[1] |
| VLR No. | 041-0157 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 26, 1996 |
| Designated VLR | October 18, 1995[2] |
Brandon Plantation is a historic plantation home located near Alton, Halifax County, Virginia. The main house is a two-part, frame vernacular farmhouse. The earliest section of the farmhouse is a single-pile, three-bay gable-roof dwelling erected about 1800. Attached to the east end is a two-bay section added about 1842. The interior features details attributed to Thomas Day, a well-known African-American cabinetmaker from Milton, North Carolina. The farmhouse underwent an extensive remodeling and modernization in the early 1960s but preserves a significant degree of architectural integrity. Also on the property are a contributing frame kitchen / slave quarter outbuilding, an early stone-lined well, and the sites of early agricultural outbuildings.[3]
Brandon Plantation is located on SR 697 (Coleman Drive) just west of SR 696 (Henderson Road).[3] Brandon-on-the-Dan, a Register-listed property approximately 2 miles west in the village of Delila, was owned by a different branch of the same family.[4]
Brandon Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1] It is also on the Virginia Department of Historic Resources list of historic African American sites in Virginia.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- ^ a b Calder Loth (August 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brandon Plantation" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
- ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (January 2017). "NRHP nomination for Brandon-on-the-Dan", Section 8 page 13. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
- ^ "Historic African American Sites in Virginia", Historic Registers, Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved July 18, 2023.
