Curles Neck Plantation, human settlement in Virginia, United States of America
Curles Neck Plantation, also known as Curles Neck Farm, is a historic plantation on a James River peninsula in Henrico County, Virginia. The property includes a main house built around 1896 in Colonial Revival style, along with barns, a store building in Victorian Italianate style, and worker cottages in Craftsman style.
The farm was established around 1630, making it one of the earliest European settlements in Virginia. Over the following centuries it grew into one of the largest agricultural operations along the James River.
The name Curles Neck refers to the bends of the James River that wrap around the peninsula where this farm sits. Visitors passing by can still notice the contrast between the main house and the small worker cottages scattered across the property.
The property is private, but several historic buildings are visible from nearby roads as you drive along the peninsula. It is best to view everything from outside the boundary and avoid entering the grounds without permission.
Curles Neck appears in records connected to Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, one of the first armed uprisings in the American colonies. Nathaniel Bacon used the property as a base, giving this farm a direct link to one of the most turbulent episodes in colonial Virginia's early story.
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