{"nrhp_refnum":"69000283","name":"Chippokes Plantation","other_names":["Chippokes Plantation Historic District","Chippokes","Chippokes S"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Chippokes State Park, VA 634 and 633","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamestown","county":"Surry County","state":"VA","lat":37.13972840200003,"lon":-76.71463948378815,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-10-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Prehistoric","Landscape Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1,403-acre plantation district on the south bank of the James River in Surry County, Virginia, opposite Jamestown Island, now part of Chippokes State Park. It includes two plantation houses dating to about 1829-30 and about 1860, farm buildings, slave quarters and archeological sites.","why_significant":"The 1969 nomination argues the plantation is significant as one of the earliest in Virginia, with a land history running from the Virginia Company era through the Berkeley and Ludwell families. It also notes two fine early and mid-19th-century buildings, extensive gardens and river views. The 1986 documentation adds that thirty-four archeological sites, including four 17th-century ones, may illuminate early European colonization.","narrative":"Chippokes Plantation is a 1,403-acre tract on the south bank of the James River in Surry County, Virginia, across from Jamestown Island. Bounded by College Run, Lower Chippokes Creek and Cobham Bay, it is now part of Chippokes State Park and still includes working pasture and cropland. The district holds thirty-seven buildings and structures, among them two unaltered plantation houses, one from about 1829-30 and one from about 1860, along with 19th-century outbuildings, slave quarters, and early-20th-century farm buildings and sharecroppers' dwellings. The plantation takes its name from a Native chief friendly to the English settlers. Its land was patented in the 1620s to Captain William Powell, later passed to Governor William Berkeley and then the Ludwell family, and was bought by new owners in 1837. Thirty-four identified archeological sites, four from the 17th century, may reveal early colonial life. The property was listed for its early settlement, its surviving 19th-century architecture, and its gardens and river views.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Italianate (main house and kitchen), with Colonial Revival outbuildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated as Chippokes State Park, with a working farm and a house museum; the 1969 form lists condition as good and the 1986 form as excellent and good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.099334-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/6838/41683897/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000283.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000283/1cdc3373a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000283/1cdc3373a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Virginia State Parks staff","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_grounds_at_Chippokes_(5822942656)_(2).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia State Parks staff</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_grounds_at_Chippokes_(5822942656)_(2).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683897","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chippokes_State_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5101713"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/surry-county/chippokes-plantation-69000283/"}