Walnut Valley

Walnut Valley, near Highgate in Surry County, Virginia, preserves a long plantation history from its establishment in 1636 to its modern restoration within Chippokes Plantation State Park. The site centers on a Federal-style frame house built around 1770, with an 1816 detached kitchen, an 1816 slave quarter, later farm buildings, and extensive archaeological evidence. Successive owners expanded a farm worked by enslaved people, producing livestock, crops, and brandy; the enslaved population grew from fourteen in 1810 to thirty by 1833. After the Civil War and emancipation, the property declined, later passed to tenant farmers, and was eventually donated to Virginia in 2004.

Virginia · United States