Brandon Plantation (Halifax County, Virginia)
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.
Brandon Plantation is located on SR 697 (Coleman Drive) just west of SR 696 (Henderson Road). 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.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- ^ Calder Loth (August 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brandon Plantation" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
- ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (January 2017). "NRHP nomination for Brandon-on-the-Dan", Section 8 page 13. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
- ^ "Historic African American Sites in Virginia", Historic Registers, Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved July 18, 2023.
