{"nrhp_refnum":"10000146","name":"Newington Archaeological Site","other_names":["Vdhr# 049-0096"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"697 Frazier Ferry Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"King and Queen Courthouse","county":"King and Queen County","state":"VA","lat":37.67227537800005,"lon":-76.90306765499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Prehistoric","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 9.2-acre archaeological site on the northeast bank of the Mattaponi River near King and Queen Courthouse, King and Queen County, Virginia, containing Native American deposits and the remains of an eighteenth-century plantation home complex.","why_significant":"The site is nominated under Criterion D at the statewide level for its well-preserved archaeological record. It holds Woodland period Native American deposits, including rare Abbott Farm ceramics, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century plantation remains. These can yield information on community organization, settlement patterns, colonial plantation life, architecture and landscape design.","narrative":"Newington is a 9.2-acre archaeological site beside the Mattaponi River in King and Queen County, Virginia. It began as a Native American settlement and later became the home plantation of the Braxton family, who held 2,825 acres by 1704, and then the Roane and Harwood families. Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born and raised there. Surface remains include a ruined colonial stone building, the depression left by the mansion basement, a cemetery, an old road cut and two garden terraces. Excavations in 1966-67, 1982 and 2009 found brick foundations, two brick-lined cellars filled in the late eighteenth century, and likely further outbuildings and a possible slave quarter. Native American deposits from the Woodland period contain about 8,000 sherds, including rare Abbott Farm ceramics. The site's well-preserved layers offer evidence on prehistoric settlement and on how a colonial plantation changed over time.","period_of_significance":"Woodland Period (1200 BC - AD 1600); ca. 1704-1906","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["D"],"status_note":"Today a maintained meadow with a roofless, ruinous stone building, a mansion basement depression, a cemetery, a road cut and garden terraces; function listed as unoccupied land.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.643102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6813/41681383/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000146/760b1f49c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000146/760b1f49c4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newington_driveway_from_Frazier%27s_Ferry_Road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newington_driveway_from_Frazier%27s_Ferry_Road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681383","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newington_Archaeological_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895862"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-and-queen-county/newington-archaeological-site-10000146/"}