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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
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.

Places

PlaceAsNotedInType
PlaceAsNotedInType
Upper Brandon Plantation

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Particulars for Brandon Plantation, VA:
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



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 12th November 1969

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Brandon
Registry Address: W bank of the James River at the end of Rte. 611
Registry Number: 69000271
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Roman country house
Area in Acres: 105
Contributing Buildings: 4
Non-Contributing Buildings: 2
Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark, National Landmark boundary approved
Certification: Listed in the National Register
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Architecture, Agriculture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1750-1799
Significant Year: c 1765, 1770
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Secondary structure
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Secondary structure

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