{"nrhp_refnum":"76002122","name":"Pleasant Point","other_names":["Crouches Creek Plantation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 mi. S of Scotland on VA 637","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scotland","county":"Surry County","state":"VA","lat":37.173673696000066,"lon":-76.77528868000402,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Military","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A plantation house with a forecourt of outbuildings and five riverfront terraces, on a bluff on the south bank of the James River about 0.9 mile south of Scotland, Surry County, Virginia. The house was built around 1735-45 by Benjamin Edwards.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a remarkably complete picture of early eighteenth-century plantation life in Southside Virginia, with its original terracing and surviving outbuildings. The land was part of George Sandys's 1624 grant and was long held by the Edwards family. A Confederate signal station on the bluff adds a military association.","narrative":"Pleasant Point is a plantation on a high bluff above the James River in Surry County, Virginia, facing Jamestown Island. The story-and-a-half frame house with brick ends was built around 1735-45, probably by Benjamin Edwards, and sits atop five riverfront terraces. A forecourt of outbuildings survives, including a laundry, a smokehouse with dovecote, and a dairy. A fourth building, a kitchen that burned, was reconstructed as a garage. The land was first patented in 1624 as part of a 650-acre grant to George Sandys, the colony's treasurer and translator of Ovid. The Edwards family held it from the mid-seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century. Earthworks of a Confederate signal station remain at the cliff edge, the site of a skirmish in March 1864. The house was restored from the 1930s and lost its original interiors, though much early exterior fabric remains. The intact terracing and outbuildings are the main reasons for its recognition, and the site may also hold archaeological remains of earlier occupation.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Benjamin Edwards (owner-builder)","architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence, occupied; the house was restored and its interior altered between 1930 and 1950, and a modern pool and barn were added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.900036-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/6838/41683894/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002122.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002122/125f12f7d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002122/125f12f7d9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Point_Pleasant,_Surry_County_Courthouse_vicinity,_Surry_vicinity_(Surry_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683894","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Point_(Scotland,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15267045"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/surry-county/pleasant-point-76002122/"}