Near Blacksburg, Virginia, Kentland Farm is a layered historic landscape combining a 19th-century plantation with far older Native American occupation. Archaeological evidence shows use during the Late Woodland period, about AD 800 to 1600, including an extensive prehistoric village and many artifacts. The property also preserves traces of Shawnee habitation and migration in the late 1700s. Its best-known building, a brick manor house built in 1834 and 1835, was constructed with limestone from Brush Mountain and bricks made by enslaved laborers. Assembled by James Randal Kent, the farm became a major agricultural operation worked by 123 enslaved people, and today it continues as a Virginia Tech research farm.