Stony Creek Plantation

VA 624, De Witt, Virginia. County/parish: Dinwiddie.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2003. NRIS 03000212.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • 026-0092
  • Shell House

From Wikipedia:

Stony Creek Plantation

Stony Creek Plantation, also known as Shell House, is a historic plantation house located at DeWitt, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1750, and is a 1+12-story, three-bay, center-hall plan house. It would have been built by enslaved African Americans. They likely cultivated tobacco and mixed crops by the time this plantation was developed.

A two-story perpendicular section was added in 1872, more than 120 years later and after the Civil War. The house is T-shaped and features massive brick chimneys.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680403

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