Belle Grove is a historic

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

located on U.S. Route 301 in Port Conway,

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. The present plantation house was built in 1790.

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, a Founding Father and the fourth

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, was born on March 16, 1751, at Belle Grove plantation in an earlier house which no longer stands. Belle Grove plantation was also the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose "Nelly" Conway. Her father Francis Conway was the namesake for Port Conway. MadisonBirthplacePortConwayVA

On April 11, 1973, Belle Grove was added to the

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Official websiteBelle Grove, Rappahannock River, King George County, VA
3 photos and 2 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia Houses in King George County, Virginia Madison family Plantation houses in Virginia Georgian architecture in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1790 James Madison National Register of Historic Places in King George County, Virginia Homes of United States Founding Fathers {{KingGeorgeCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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