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The Isle of Rest Plantation in Mecklenberg County, Virginia was once a 4,000 acre working plantation that stretched along the banks of the Roanoke River.
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Tales passed down from generation to generation speak of a powerful and thriving plantation of cattle, cotton, a fishery and the first water powered saw mill in the state.
The original house and out buildings were all built with timber from the plantation. The buildings are thought to date back to the early 1800's…the grand main house, a plantation office, detached kitchen, wash house, three barns, chicken coop, a manager's house and an ice house built underground, among others. The main house burned to the ground in the early 1860's. The accounts of the house fire vary from being struck by lightning to speculation that the house was torched during a raid by Union troops. Even though it was during the early part of the Civil War many family members and locals agree that the theory of the house being struck by lightning is more likely. Read Full Story |
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