Stony Creek Plantation Explained

Stony Creek Plantation
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:December 4, 2002[1]
Designated Other1 Number:026-0092
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:37.0925°N -77.6586°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Georgian
Added:April 11, 2003
Refnum:03000212

Stony Creek Plantation, also known as Shell House, is a historic plantation house located at DeWitt, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1750, and is a -story, three-bay, center-hall plan house. It would have been built by enslaved African Americans. They likely cultivated tobacco and mixed crops by the time this plantation was developed.

A two-story perpendicular section was added in 1872, more than 120 years later and after the Civil War. The house is T-shaped and features massive brick chimneys.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Stony Creek Plantation. John G. Zehmer . August 2002. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying three photos