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Fighting Creek Plantation

Coordinates: 37°31′06″N 77°54′48″W / 37.51833°N 77.91333°W / 37.51833; -77.91333
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Fighting Creek Plantation
Road entrance, 2018
Fighting Creek Plantation is located in Virginia
Fighting Creek Plantation
Fighting Creek Plantation is located in the United States
Fighting Creek Plantation
Location1811 Mill Quarter Road, Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates37°31′06″N 77°54′48″W / 37.51833°N 77.91333°W / 37.51833; -77.91333
Area4.3 acres (1.7 ha)
Built1841 (1841)
Architectural styleItalianate, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.13000890[1]
VLR No.072-0015
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 3, 2013
Designated VLRSeptember 19, 2013[2]

The Fighting Creek Plantation is a historic plantation house at 1811 Mill Quarter Road in Powhatan, Virginia. It is one of a few surviving mid-19th century plantation houses in the state. The two story stucco manor house was built c. 1841, supposedly to a design by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It was built for John Brockenbrough Harvie and his wife as the main house of their nearly 1,700-acre (690 ha) plantation. The property now associated with the house has been reduced to just 4.3 acres (1.7 ha). Its main facade features a two-story portico with square Doric columns, topped by a pedimented gable. On each level under the portico there is a door, with round-arch windows flanking it on either side.[3]

The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[1]

Colorized photo, c. 1890

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References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
  3. ^ "NRHP nomination for Fighting Creek Plantation" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-03-02.