The Southall plantation site in Charles City County was the homeland of the Chickahominy in the year before the English settle at Jamestown. The plantation is located near the Necotowance’s path. It was one of the many seats of the Southall family. Furneau Southall, who is the establisher of Southall plantation, sereced on the Charles City County Committee of safety. Also, Southall was on response for the local administration of the first U.S. census in 1790. The plantation existed during eighteen, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The original portion of the Piney Grove house was constructed as a log corncrib on the Southall plantation before 1790. It survives as a rare and well-preserved example of early log architecture in Tidewater Virginia.
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The Southall plantation site in Charles City County was the homeland of the Chickahominy in the year before the English settle at Jamestown. The plantation is located near the Necotowance’s path. It was one of the many seats of the Southall family. Furneau Southall, who is the establisher of Southall plantation, sereced on the Charles City County Committee of safety. Also, Southall was on response for the local administration of the first U.S. census in 1790. The plantation existed during eighteen, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The original portion of the Piney Grove house was constructed as a log corncrib on the Southall plantation before 1790. It survives as a rare and well-preserved example of early log architecture in Tidewater Virginia.