Stony Creek Plantation
Virginia, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Stony Creek Plantation, also known as Shell House, is a historic plantation house in DeWitt, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, featuring two distinct building phases that reflect its evolution across more than a century. The original section, constructed around 1750, is a one-and-a-half-story Georgian structure arranged in a three-bay, center-hall plan and built by enslaved African Americans who likely cultivated tobacco and mixed crops on the property. A two-story perpendicular addition constructed in 1872, more than two decades after the Civil War, expanded the house into its present T-shaped form, distinguished by massive brick chimneys. The plantation was designated a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
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- Type
- plantation
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, Virginia Historic Landmark
- Place
- Virginia, United States
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