{"nrhp_refnum":"90002012","name":"Woodlawn Historic and Archeological District","other_names":["DHR file # 48-26"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Between VA 625 and the Rappahannock R., E of US 301","address_restricted":false,"city":"Port Conway","county":"King George County","state":"VA","lat":38.179310663500075,"lon":-77.16770079598207,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Prehistoric","Historic - Aboriginal","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Agriculture","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodlawn is an 899-acre riverfront plantation district near Port Conway in King George County, Virginia, on the north bank of the Rappahannock River. It centers on a plantation house begun about 1790 and enlarged around 1841, with outbuildings, fields and archaeological sites.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is among the oldest plantations in the county and has kept essentially its late eighteenth-century boundaries and land uses. It is tied to the Turner family and the river-based plantation economy. The main house shows Georgian form with Greek Revival and Colonial Revival changes, and the seven archaeological sites, five of them Native American, add information on prehistoric and plantation-era life.","narrative":"Woodlawn is an 899-acre plantation on the north bank of the Rappahannock River in King George County, Virginia. Its main house began about 1790 as a small 1 1/2-story dwelling, now the kitchen wing. Around 1841 Richard H. Turner enlarged it into a two-story, five-bay Georgian-form house with a Greek Revival interior and porch. In 1934 a Colonial Revival sunroom wing and a two-story pedimented portico were added, and a 1982 rehabilitation kept that exterior. Nearby are a detached kitchen, a slaves' quarter and a smokehouse from the first half of the nineteenth century, plus a barn and implement shed. The district was recognized for its long-stable boundaries and land uses, its link to the Turner family, and its place in the river-based plantation economy. Its architecture reflects several building periods. Seven archaeological sites, including five Native American sites, add evidence of prehistoric and plantation-era settlement.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Turner (original c. 1790 portion, per secondary sources); Richard H. Turner (c. 1841 enlargement)","architectural_style":"Mixed: Georgian, Greek Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The plantation house was rehabilitated in 1982 and remains a single dwelling; fields and woodlands remain in agricultural and wooded use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.092049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/6814/41681420/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002012.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002012/96c9cbfcbb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002012/96c9cbfcbb-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn_plantation_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn_plantation_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681420","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Historic_and_Archeological_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15964627"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-george-county/woodlawn-historic-and-archeological-district-90002012/"}