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Lower Sauratown Plantation

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Lower Sauratown Plantation
Nearest cityEden, North Carolina
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1825 (1825)
NRHP reference No.84000071[1]
Site 31RK1
LocationSouthern side of the Dan River, southeast of Eden, near Eden, North Carolina[2]
Area12 acres (4.9 ha)
NRHP reference No.84002474[1]
Added to NRHPMay 24, 1984
Added to NRHPOctober 11, 1984

Lower Sauratown Plantation includes the remnants of a historic plantation and archaeological site located near Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The plantation remnants include a plantation office building (c. 1825), a mid-19th century brick dwelling house, the Brodnax family cemetery, the remains of an extensive boxwood garden, and numerous below-grade foundations. The office and dwelling house were restored in 1983. Site 31RK1 is located on the Lower Sauratown Plantation and includes the remains of a large 17th-century Indian village of the Saura tribe. Lower Sauratown Plantation was the boyhood home of Governor Robert Broadnax Glenn, the adopted son of Dr. Edward T. Brodnax.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Master Site Record, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, n.d. Accessed 2014-06-23.
  3. ^ Lindley S. Butler and Michael T. Southern (July 1984). "Lower Sauratown Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.