Upper Brandon Plantation

  • Also Known As: VHDR 74-27

  • Address: 2300 Upper Brandon Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1616/00/00 John Martin (Jamestown) Owner Upper Brandon plantation is part of a 5,000 acres land patent granted to Captain John Martin.
1637/00/00 Richard Quiney Jr Owner Captain John Martin's grandson, Captain Robert Bargrave, inherits Brandon and sells the plantation to John Sadler, Richard Quiney and William Barker, who patented the nearby Merchant's Hope plantation.
1824/00/00 Tax records show that Upper Brandon has 94 enslaved Americans.
1825/00/00 William Byrd Harrison Home A mansion is built for William Harrison on his 3,555 acre plantation.

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Particulars for Upper Brandon Plantation:
Historic Use Agricultural fields
Historic Use Agricultural outbuildings
Area of Significance Agriculture
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Early republic
Architectural Style Federal Style
Criteria Historic Event
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 24th July 1997

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Upper Brandon Plantation
Registry Address: 2300 Upper Brandon Rd.
Registry Number: 97000959
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architectural Style: Early republic, Federal
Contributing Buildings: 3
Non-Contributing Buildings: 6
Contributing Sites: 3
Non-Contributing Sites: 2
Contributing Structures: 2
Non-Contributing Structures: 3
Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture, Agriculture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1825, 1859
Historic Function: Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence, Agriculture, subsistence
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Agricultural fields, Agricultural outbuildings
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Camp

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