Brandon Plantation (Halifax County, Virginia) Explained

Brandon Plantation
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:October 18, 1995[1]
Designated Other1 Number:041-0157
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:36.5792°N -79.1211°W
Built:c., 1842
Architecture:Early Republic, Greek Revival
Added:April 26, 1996
Refnum:96000495

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.[2]

Brandon Plantation is located on SR 697 (Coleman Drive) just west of SR 696 (Henderson Road).[2] 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.

Brandon Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is also on the Virginia Department of Historic Resources list of historic African American sites in Virginia.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 19 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brandon Plantation . Calder Loth . August 1995 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo