The Woodlawn Historic and Archeological District encompasses a historic plantation near the

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in southern

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. The property is located east of US Route 301 near Port Conway. The estate boundaries are essentially the same as those when the plantation was first established in 1790. The main plantation house dates to that time although it has been extended and altered over the intervening centuries. Also of notable interest on this property are surviving antebellum slave quarters, and archaeological sites containing evidence of Native American occupation of the land. The plantation was listed on the

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in 1991.

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