W of jct. of Rte. 641 and VA 10, Hopewell, Virginia. County/parish: Prince George.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 08, 1969. NRIS 69000274.
1 contributing building.
Merchant's Hope was the name of a plantation and church established in the Virginia Colony in the 17th century. It was also the name of an English sailing ship, Merchant's Hope, which plied the Atlantic bringing emigrants to Virginia in the early 17th-century. The Merchant's Hope was owned by a man named William Barker who was a wealthy English merchant and mariner who patented land in Virginia.
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