Corotoman was a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century plantation on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, seat of colonial Virginia governor Robert Carter I, whose landholdings grew to some 300,000 acres across 48 plantations. The Georgian mansion built around 1720 and completed by 1725 burned down in 1729. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and is now managed by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
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Building Type LocationRappahannock River, Lancaster County, Virginia 1 Completed Year Classification
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Corotoman was a 17th and 18th century plantation on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States.
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was a 17th and 18th century plantation
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on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States
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The house was completed in 1725 and introduced a new era for early 18th-century architecture in Virginia.
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Corotoman was a 17th and 18th century plantation on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States.
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