Dixon, also known as Dixon Plantation, was a privately owned historic plantation house built in 1793 in King and Queen County, Virginia, on the Mattaponi River, a tributary of the York River, in one of Virginia historic slavery-dependent tobacco growing regions. It stood between the unincorporated communities of Shacklefords and King and Queen Court House, Virginia, until it was lost in 2021. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Dixon (Shacklefords, Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 412138): Virginia, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 412138): Virginia, United States
Wikidata item Q14712240, property P131/P17 (location): Virginia, United States
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Dixon, also known as Dixon's Plantation, was a privately owned historic plantation house (1793-2021) in King and Queen County, Virginia on the Mattaponi River-a tributary of the York River in one of Virginia's historic slavery-dependent tobacco-growing regions. The property was situated between the two unincorporated communities of Shacklefords and King and Queen Court House, Virginia.
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Dated (by tree-rings) to 1793, the plantation's surviving central residence was a two-story, five-bay, symmetrical frame house with a gambrel roof, brick foundation and brick end-walls-the latter featuring Flemish bond and internal (rather than expressed) chimneys.
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