Brandon Plantation is a historic plantation home located near

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. The main house is a two-part, frame vernacular farmhouse. The earliest section of the farmhouse is a single-pile, three-bay gable-roof dwelling erected about 1800. Attached to the east end is a two-bay section added about 1842. The interior features details attributed to Thomas Day, a well-known African-American cabinetmaker from

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. The farmhouse underwent an extensive remodeling and modernization in the early 1960s but preserves a significant degree of architectural integrity. Also on the property are a contributing frame kitchen / slave quarter outbuilding, an early stone-lined well, and the sites of early agricultural outbuildings. an
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/ref> Brandon Plantation is located on SR 697 (Coleman Drive) just west of SR 696 (Henderson Road). Brandon-on-the-Dan, a Register-listed property approximately 2 miles west in the village of

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, was owned by a different branch of the same family. Brandon Plantation was listed on the

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in 1996. It is also on the

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list of historic

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sites in Virginia.

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