| 词条 | Slate Hill Plantation |
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The Slate Hill Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In the Antebellum South, it was used to grow tobacco. The decision to establish Hampden–Sydney College was made here in 1775, although its campus is located two miles South. LocationThe plantation is located two miles South of the campus of Hampden–Sydney College and Worsham in Prince Edward County, Virginia.[1][2][3] It spans 252 acres.[2] HistoryThe land was granted to Joseph Morton in 1739.[2][4] The main house on the plantation was built in 1756 by Nathaniel Venable (1733–1804), who served in the House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1768.[1][3][5][6] The house is one story and a half, with a kitchen in another building to reduce the risk of fire.[5][7] About a hundred slaves worked on the plantation, which was used to grow tobacco.[5][7][8] In February 1775, a conclave composed of Nathaniel Venable, John Morton and Fred Johnston met in an outbuilding and decided to establish Hampden–Sydney College nearby.[1][2][9][10] After Nathaniel Venable's death, the house was inherited by one of his sons, Richard N. Venable.[2] Another son, Samuel Woodson Venable, lived in another house East of the main house.[2] A third son, who also grew up on the plantation, Abraham B. Venable, served in the United States House of Representatives from 1791 to 1799 and in the United States Senate from 1803 to 1804.[2] In 1944, the outbuilding was moved to the campus of H–SC.[1][2][9] The main house was abandoned by the 1950s and demolished in 1971.[2] A historical marker was added in 2003.[5] Since 2006, Dr. Charles Pearson and his students have been restoring the plantation.[1][2] They have unearthed ceramics dating back to the 1790s.[2] Some of those ceramics have been identified as made by the Leeds Pottery in 1783.[2] They have also found animal remains like pig teeth.[2] Simultaneously, the Esther Thomas Atkinson Museum on the H–SC campus has had an exhibit about the plantation called Beneath This Hill: Historical Archaeology at Slate Hill Plantation, Birthplace of Hampden–Sydney College.[1] Further reading
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 History of Hampden–Sydney College: Slate Hill Plantation {{Hampden–Sydney College}}{{coord|display=title|37.217914|-78.443009}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 History of Hampden–Sydney College: Slate Hill Plantation: Slate Hill Gallery 3. ^1 Historic Garden Week in Virginia, Garden Club of Virginia, 1974, p. 94 [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLdNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OCszVLCTI4qoogSj3YGQBQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBDgK] 4. ^Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1990, Volume 124, p. 45 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3_8QAQAAMAAJ&q=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OCszVLCTI4qoogSj3YGQBQ&ved=0CBsQ6AEwADgK] 5. ^1 2 3 Historical Marker: Slate Hill Plantation 6. ^Angie Way, Slate Hill unearthed, The Esther Thomas Atkinson Museum of Hampden–Sydney College Newsletter, May 2011, pp. 2–3 7. ^1 Dorothy Williams Turner, Williams - Wolcott and related families, D.W. Turner, 1989, p. 51 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1o9bAAAAMAAJ&q=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4iozVOmUCJDioASAyoDIBw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCQ] 8. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=UVobAQAAMAAJ&q=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4iozVOmUCJDioASAyoDIBw&ved=0CEgQ6AEwCA Darrell L. McGraw, The Venable Letter, 1992, Volumes 1-11, p. 184] 9. ^1 The Iron Worker, Lynchburg Foundry Company, 1954, Volumes 18-20, p. 2 [https://books.google.com/books?id=WptIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4iozVOmUCJDioASAyoDIBw&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBg] 10. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=_i_OAAAAMAAJ&q=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OCszVLCTI4qoogSj3YGQBQ&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAjgK The Cross & Crescent, 1939, Volume 26, Issue 6, p. 408] 11. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=6t-5mgEACAAJ&dq=%22slate+hill+plantation%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4iozVOmUCJDioASAyoDIBw&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA Google Books] 6 : Plantations in Virginia|Houses completed in 1756|Hampden–Sydney College|Tobacco plantations in the United States|Prince Edward County, Virginia|1756 establishments in Virginia |
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