{"nrhp_refnum":"74002125","name":"Meadow Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mountain and Courtney Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glen Allen","county":"Henrico County","state":"VA","lat":37.676380216500064,"lon":-77.5167764272632,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Meadow Farm is a story-and-a-half frame plantation dwelling near Glen Allen in Henrico County, Virginia, built in the late eighteenth century on about 175 acres at Mountain and Courtney Roads.","why_significant":"The house is a typical late-eighteenth-century residence for a small Virginia plantation with largely intact early fabric. It is also tied to the Sheppard family, whose member Mosby Sheppard warned of Gabriel's planned slave rebellion in 1800 and notified Governor James Monroe.","narrative":"Meadow Farm is a late-eighteenth-century plantation house in Henrico County near Glen Allen, Virginia. The story-and-a-half frame dwelling has a gable roof, gable dormers, brick chimneys at the exterior ends and a single-pile plan. Its box cornices, beaded weatherboarding, louvered blinds and nine-over-nine windows survive, and a country Greek Revival porch likely dates from the 1840s. Inside, the stair, Federal mantels and cross-and-Bible doors remain largely unaltered. The property is also tied to a notable event. On August 30, 1800, owner Mosby Sheppard was warned by two of his servants that slaves on a neighboring farm were planning an insurrection led by Gabriel. He alerted Governor James Monroe, who took precautions to stop it. The two servants, Pharioh and Tom, were later bought by the Commonwealth and freed. The Sheppard family and its descendants kept the farm for almost two hundred years.","period_of_significance":"18th and 19th centuries","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late eighteenth-century Virginia plantation house with a simple country Greek Revival porch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in generally good preservation but in need of repair; listed as a privately owned residence. Later records mention restoration work.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.01258-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/6812/41681246/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002125.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002125/49c95c9877-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002125/49c95c9877-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Musgrove","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadow_Farm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">John Musgrove</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadow_Farm.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010833","name":"Warminster Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/warminster-rural-historic-district-100010833/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681246","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6803233"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/henrico-county/meadow-farm-74002125/"}