Beaver Creek Plantation
Beaver Creek Plantation, under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century. Located just outside today's Martinsville, Virginia, the plantation thrived in tobacco production and textile manufacturing, as well as producing household goods and raising livestock. At one point the enslaved blacks of Beaver Creek were tending a thousand yam plants; in one day they made 660 candles.
Beaver Creek Plantation | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Virginia Landmarks Register | |
Front of the house | |
| Location | VA 108, Martinsville, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°43′10″N 79°52′52″W |
| Area | 11.7 acres (4.7 ha) |
| Built | 1839 |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 85000984 |
| VLR No. | 044-0001 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 9, 1985 |
| Designated VLR | April 16, 1985 |
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