Woodlawn Historic and Archeological District

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.