{"nrhp_refnum":"06000162","name":"Vaughan, Rebecca, House (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["DHR File # 201-5002"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"26315 Heritage Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Courtland","county":"Southampton County","state":"VA","lat":36.71092317800003,"lon":-77.05781140299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-03-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Black","Ethnic Heritage-Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story frame Federal-style dwelling built ca. 1800 on a former small farm in Southampton County, Virginia, and moved in 2004 to 26315 Heritage Lane in Courtland, where it sits on a new brick foundation.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the August 1831 Southampton Insurrection led by Nat Turner. It was the last house where Turner's followers killed residents, and it is the only building still standing in the county where residents were killed during the revolt. It meets Criterion A, and Criteria Consideration B because it was moved to prevent demolition.","narrative":"This small frame dwelling, built around 1800, has four rooms in one and one-half stories, with a central hall, pressed metal shingle roof and five dormers. Original heart pine flooring, pegged and numbered timber framing, and mitered Federal-period trim survive. The house was moved in 2004 from the Vaughan farm, where it sat empty for over fifteen years and faced demolition, to the Southampton Agriculture & Forestry Museum's Heritage Village in Courtland. It was placed on a new handmade-brick foundation and awaits restoration. The house matters because of its link to the 1831 insurrection led by Nat Turner, an enslaved African American. On August 22, 1831, Turner's followers killed Rebecca Vaughan, her son Arthur, an overseer and her niece Ann Eliza here, in the last killings of the revolt. Other sites tied to the events have collapsed or been demolished, making this the only standing building in the county where residents died. The revolt led to harsher slave codes across Virginia.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800-1831","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed as not in use, with restoration work in progress after the 2004 move; exterior restoration, including chimney reconstruction and window, roof and dormer repair, was planned first.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.038076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/6837/41683711/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000162/800cb3d822-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000162/800cb3d822-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Joel Bradshaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courtland-Rebecca-Vaughan-house.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Joel Bradshaw</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courtland-Rebecca-Vaughan-house.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Vaughan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272107"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/southampton-county/vaughan-rebecca-house-additional-documentation-06000162/"}