5004 Cartersville Road, Powhatan, Virginia. County/parish: Powhatan.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 14, 2025. NRIS 69000270.
Also known as:
Belmead (also known as Belmead Plantation, or Belmead-on-the-James) is a historic plantation located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia, designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis for Philip St. George Cocke — and constructed about 1845.
It later became the site of two Black Catholic schools, including the only military academy for African-American males.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682652