Brandon Plantation, VA
- Also Known As: Lower Brandon
- Address: Rte 611
- Vicinity: W bank of the James River at the end of Rte 611
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1622/03/22 | One woman, two boys and four men are slaughtered at Martin's Brandon. | Virginia Indians Massacre English Colonist, 1622 | ||||
1632/00/00 | John Martin (Jamestown) | Died | Captain John Martin dies at Martin's Brandon Plantation. | |||
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. | |||
1715/00/00 | Two four-room buildings are built, each of one-and-a-half storeys, aligned with the James River. There arrangement suggest that they might have been intended as wings or dependencies of a great house. | |||||
1720/00/00 | Col Nathaniel Harrison Sr | Owner | Nathaniel Harrison buys Brandon with two four-room buildings, but never occupies the house but rather lives on the estates of his successive wives in Stafford and Warwick Counties. | |||
1727/00/00 | Col Nathaniel Harrison Jr | Owner | After Nathaniel Harrison's premature death, Brandon passes to his son Nathaniel Harrison II. | |||
1765/00/00 | Thomas Jefferson | Possible Architect | Construction begins on a 2-story center structure between the existing buildings for Nathaniel Harrison which are raised to 2-storey and connected by hyphens to the center block. Family tradition attributes the design to Thomas Jefferson. | |||
1767/00/00 | The plan of Brandon, as well as its general massing, comes from Robert Morris' book, Select Architecture, published in 1757. Jefferson owns a copy of "Select Architecture". | |||||
1770/00/00 | Lucy Fitzhugh Harrison | Home | Brandon is completed for Lucy and Nathaniel Harrison. | |||
1791/11/00 | Col Benjamin Harrison | Owner | Colonel Benjamin Harrison inherits Brandon from his father. |
Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
Upper Brandon Plantation |
Particulars for Brandon Plantation, VA: | |
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Area of Significance | Agriculture |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Level of Significance | National |
Architectural Style | Palladian |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Secondary structure |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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