Accokeek was a 17th-century

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

Accokeek Creek Accokeek Creek is a tidal tributary of Potomac Creek, itself a tributary of the Potomac River, in Stafford County, Virginia, United States. From it headwaters to its mouth, Accokeek Creek is in total length.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hyd ...

in Stafford County,

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, United States. Built with the forced labor of

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, Accokeek was the first seat of the prominent Mason political family in Virginia. In 1653, the tract of land that would become Accokeek was granted to John Withers, who then sold it to Colonel Valentine Peyton (1627-1665). In 1662, Peyton sold the tract, along with granted to Peyton, to Captain

George Mason I George Mason I (5 June 1629 – 1686) was the American progenitor of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family. Mason was the great-grandfather of George Mason, George Mason IV, a Founding Fathers of the United States, Found ...

(5 June 1629–1686), the

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of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family, made his permanent residence along

on a hill between present-day State Routes 608 (Brooke Road) and 621 (Marlborough Point Road) in Stafford County, Virginia. He christened his plantation "Accokeek," which was later renamed "Rose Hill." Mason's Accokeek plantation began with about and eventually increased in size to . George Mason I's son

George Mason II George Mason II (1660–1716) was an early American planter and officeholder who, although his father's only child, had many children and thus can be said to have established the Mason family as one of the First Families of Virginia. His grandson ...

was born in 1660 at Accokeek. George Mason II sold Accokeek after his father's death and moved to Chopawamsic plantation on

Chopawamsic Creek Chopawamsic Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the Potomac River in Prince William and Stafford counties, Virginia. Chopawamsic Cree ...

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