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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1709/00/00 Chelsea Plantation is built for Colonel Augustine Moore, a socially and politically well-connected gentleman and a highly successful tobacco entrepreneur in the Tidewater area.
1756/00/00 Anne Moore Carter Born Anne Spotswood Moore, wife of Bernard Moore, gives birth to a daughter, Anne Butler Moore, at Chelsea in King William Co, Colony of Virginia.
1781/09/00 Marquis de Lafayette Patriot Commander During the Revolutionary War, General Lafayette encamps at Chelsea during the campaign of 1781.
1801/02/09 Anne Spotswood Moore Died Anne Katherine Spotswood Moore dies in King William, Virginia. Mrs Moore is buried at Chelsea Plantation in West Point, Virginia.

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Particulars for Chelsea Plantation, West Point:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Exemplar
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 12th November 1969

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Chelsea
Registry Address: N of jct. of Chelsea Rd. and Rte. 30
Registry Number: 69000253
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 510
Contributing Buildings: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1700-1749
Significant Year: c 1709
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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