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Rochambeau Farm
Rochambeau Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Manakin-Sabot, Virginia, Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. The main dwelling was built about 1855, and is an "L"-shaped full two-story frame structure set on a common bond brick foundation in the Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival style. It has a low hip roof and three single-story colonnade porches. Also on the property are the contributing library (c. 1750–1810), the woodshed with a three-hole outhouse, privy in the rear, the old smokehouse (now farm office) with attached toolshed, lumber shed, the garage, the new smoke house (1917/18), a chicken house, milk cow barn (near ruin), run-in shed, two-stall horse barn (near ruin), and hay storage barn (1965) with tack room (1997). One contributing structure and two contributing sites include the original farm house well, the site of the old ice house (building), ice house and the vegetable garden, containing an archaeological site. an''Accompanying tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
Manakin-Sabot, consisting of the villages of Manakin and Sabot, is an unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. It is located northwest of Richmond in the Piedmont and is part of the Greater Richmond region. History Among the earliest European settlers in the Piedmont were several hundred French Huguenots, Protestant religious refugees who had emigrated via London in 1700 and 1701 on the promise of land from the Crown. While they had expected to be settled near existing settlements of Jamestown or in Lower Norfolk County, officials gave them land in areas 20 miles above the falls of the James River at areas previously occupied by the Native American Monacan people. This tribe spoke a Siouan language, as did other tribes of the uplands. One French settlement in Powhatan County became known as Manakin Town (after the native tribe); two villages in Goochland were Manakin and Sabot. The colony of Manakin was created by a grant of 10,000 acres of land in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |