Brandon Plantation (Halifax County, Virginia)

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Brandon Plantation
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LocationColeman Drive, 500 feet west of its junction with Henderson Road, Alton, Virginia
Coordinates 36°34′45″N79°07′16″W / 36.57917°N 79.12111°W / 36.57917; -79.12111
Area141 acres (57 ha)
Builtc. 1800 (1800), 1842
Built by Thomas Day
Architectural styleEarly Republic, Greek Revival
NRHP reference No. 96000495 [1]
VLR No.041-0157
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 26, 1996
Designated VLROctober 18, 1995 [2]

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. [3]

Brandon Plantation is located on SR 697 (Coleman Drive) just west of SR 696 (Henderson Road). [3] 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. [4]

Brandon Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1] It is also on the Virginia Department of Historic Resources list of historic African American sites in Virginia. [5]

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