Lower Sauratown Plantation Explained

Lower Sauratown Plantation
Nearest City:	Eden, North Carolina
Added:	October 11, 1984
Refnum:	84000071 Site 31RK1 Embed: yes Location: Southern side of the Dan River, southeast of Eden, near Eden, North Carolina^[1] Added: May 24, 1984 Refnum: 84002474

Lower Sauratown Plantation includes the remnants of a historic plantation and archaeological site located near Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The plantation remnants include a plantation office building (c. 1825), a mid-19th century brick dwelling house, the Brodnax family cemetery, the remains of an extensive boxwood garden, and numerous below-grade foundations. The office and dwelling house were restored in 1983. Site 31RK1 is located on the Lower Sauratown Plantation and includes the remains of a large 17th-century Indian village of the Saura tribe. Lower Sauratown Plantation was the boyhood home of Governor Robert Broadnax Glenn, the adopted son of Dr. Edward T. Brodnax.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Notes and References

1. https://archive.today/20140624005446/http://www.ibiblio.org/rla/145/media/MasterSiteRecord.txt Master Site Record
2. Web site: Lindley S. Butler and Michael T. Southern. Lower Sauratown Plantation. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1984 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.