Bacon's Castle, Surry County, Virginia
Land RH. 1937. Bacon's Castle, Surry County, Virginia. Combined Historic Structure Report and Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Yorktown, Virginia
This report contains information about the history of the structure and site of Bacon's Castle. The structure is an American homestead built in the third quarter of the seventeenth century in the Jacobean style of architecture illustrating the adaptation of British architecture to this country. Additionally, it is associated with Bacon's Rebellion, as the location where followers of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr. seized the house in 1676 as a garrison to aid in holding position against the British Loyalists. The site on which the house stands is generally agricultural. Landscape features are noted, such as topography, a garden plot, agricultural use, fencing, vegetation, and circulation. This report was prepared by Robert Hunt Land, Junior Historian, Jamestown Archeological Project, Colonial National Historical Park. The property was privately owned at the time of this report.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Land, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1937-10-01
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- COLO , JAME , NER
- Keywords
- agriculture, Arthur Allen, Bacon's Rebellion, casement window, chimney stack, farm, formal garden, Jacobian architecture, landscape, masonry, outbuildings, plantation, private ownership, residence, slave quarters, well