Blandfield is a historic

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located at

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Essex County, Virginia Essex County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia; the peninsula is bordered by the Rappahannock River on the north and King and Queen County on the south. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,599. ...

. It was built about 1716–1720, and is a brick dwelling consisting of a two-story, central block with flanking two-story dependencies connected by one-story hyphens in the

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style. Blandfield was built for

William Beverley William Beverley (1696–1756) was an 18th-century legislator, civil servant, planter and landowner in the Colony of Virginia. Born in Virginia, Beverley—the son of planter and historian Robert Beverley, Jr. (c. 1667–1722) and his wife, Ursul ...

(1696–1756), son of Virginia's first native-born historian,

Robert Beverley, Jr. Robert Beverley Jr. (1667April 21, 1722) was a historian of early colonial Virginia, as well as a planter and politician. Early and family life Beverley was born in Jamestown, the second of three sons of the widow Mary Keeble and her second hus ...

(c. 1673–1722). The house is one of the largest colonial plantation mansions in Virginia, and as of 1969, was still in the Beverley family. an
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in 1969.

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Blandfield, U.S. Route 17 & State Route 624, Caret, Essex County, VA
109 photos, 21 measured drawings, and 6 photo caption pages at

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Blandfield, Smokehouse, Caret, Essex County, VA
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