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    Westover Plantation is a historic colonial tidewater plantation located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. Established...
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    uk. Retrieved 2023-03-03. "Westover Plantation: Official website". Westover Plantation. Retrieved June 24, 2018. "Westover". U.S. National Register of...
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  • Westover may refer to: Al Westover (born 1954), American professional basketball player in Australia Arthur Westover (1864–1935), Canadian sport shooter...
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  • Atkinson Pryor. Bland died at his Westover plantation in 1671 or 1672 and was buried in the chancel of the original Westover Church (which he had built). However...
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    the 'Pocahontas' neighborhood of Petersburg. William Byrd II of Westover Plantation is said to have remarked that Major Bolling enjoyed "all the profits...
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    colonial woman who managed her and her husband William Byrd II's Westover Plantation during his periods of absence. During their lifetimes, William Byrd...
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    old at the time. Despondent and nearly broke, William Byrd III of Westover Plantation committed suicide in 1777. Wood notes that "Few members of the American...
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    (2001) William Byrd II died on August 26, 1744, and was buried at Westover Plantation in Charles City County. He is referred to as William Byrd II to distinguish...
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    Westover Plantation, Belle Air Plantation, Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation, North Bend Plantation, and Sherwood Forest Plantation. Plantations not...
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    Robert Bolling William Byrd II of Westover Plantation Landon Carter I Robert Carter, Portrait at Shirley Plantation Robert Carter III by Thomas Hudson...
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    era sugar plantation system in southern Louisiana. In February 1852, Henry Watkins Allen and William Nolan purchased the Westover Plantation. Henry Watkins...
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  • This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed...
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    January 1777, leaving considerable debts. She managed his plantations, including Westover Plantation, in Charles City County, in order to satisfy his creditors...
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  • 1742 by John Ball, owned by the Arlington Historical Society. Bel Air Plantation, c. 1740, Prince William County — Home of Parson Weems, the first biographer...
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  • 1864. Evelynton was originally part of William Byrd's expansive Westover Plantation. Named for Byrd's daughter, Evelyn, this site has been home to the...
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    Westover is a historic Southern plantation in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. The plantation was established in 1822 by Benjamin S. Jordan. Jordan...
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    or antebellum plantations, such as Westover Plantation and many other James River plantations as well dozens of Antebellum era plantations in the rest of...
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    temple at his estate, Westover Plantation. The initial news reports indicated it was a "hunting accident". He was buried in the Westover estate burial grounds...
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    floor which gave the house a roofline similar to the mansion at Westover Plantation. Archibald McCrea died in 1937, but his widow lived on at Carter's...
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    society. For example, Ruffin edited writings of William Byrd of Westover Plantation The Westover Manuscripts, containing a history of the dividing line twixt...
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  • Salisbury Plantation is a historic house located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland. It has two principal sections: a 19th-century, two-story plus...
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    Hall and Hope House (Easton, Maryland), Virginia at Monticello and Westover Plantation, the Hudson River Valley of New York at Clermont State Historic Site...
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    Westover Plantation in southern Louisiana. Three years later in 1855, the land was divided and split; with Nolan keeping the name Westover Plantation...
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    squandered the Byrd fortune on building a magnificent mansion at Westover Plantation, gambling, and bad investments, Byrd parceled up much of the land...
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  • become the site of Richmond, Virginia. Byrd's son William Byrd II of Westover Plantation who inherited the land was an American planter and author from Charles...
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    Westover Plantation - Georgian country house on a James River plantation in Virginia...
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    Westover Plantation, an example of Georgian architecture on the eastern James River, in Virginia...
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  • Salisbury Plantation may refer to: Salisbury Plantation (Westover, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland Salisbury Plantation (Woodville, Mississippi)...
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  • December 1704, at his plantation home of Westover, in Charles City County, Virginia. He is buried near the original site of the Westover Church. Quitt, Martin...
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    James River, laying waste to plantations and settlements along the way. On 4 January, the British reached Westover Plantation, where they would ready themselves...
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