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Nottoway Plantation is a plantation house in a town called White Castle in the state of Louisiana. In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . John Hampden Randolph bought the area and then built the house in 1859.
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A Nottoway representative signed the Treaty of Middle...
- Nottoway people facts
Nottoway Plantation is a plantation house in a town called White Castle in the state of Louisiana. In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. John Hampden Randolph bought the area and then built the house in 1859.
A Nottoway representative signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation of 1677 in 1680, establishing the tribe as a tributary to the Virginia colony. English squatters encroached on their lands. By 1681, hostile tribes caused the Nottoway to relocate southward to Assamoosick Swamp in modern Surry County.
The plantation house is a Greek Revival- and Italianate-styled mansion built by enslaved African people and artisans for John Hampden Randolph in 1859, and is the largest extant antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet (4,900 m 2) of floor space.
The History of Nottoway Plantation. Nottoway was completed in 1859 for John Hampden Randolph and his wife, Emily Jane Liddell Randolph, and it was home to their eleven children. The mansion boasts 53,000 square feet, and originally sat on 400 acres of highland and 620 acres of swamp.
Nottoway Resort, a AAA Four-Diamond property, and a member of Historic Hotels of America, is the home of the South's largest existing antebellum mansion, completed in 1859 and now stunningly restored to her days of glory.
History. The plantation was completed in 1859, for Mr and Mrs John Hampden Randolph and their 11 children. It was named after Nottoway County, Virginia, from where its owner came. He and...
