Lower Sauratown Plantation
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]
Lower Sauratown Plantation | |
| Nearest city | Eden, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1825 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000071[1] |
Site 31RK1 | |
| Location | Southern side of the Dan River, southeast of Eden, near Eden, North Carolina[2] |
| Area | 12 acres (4.9 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002474[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 24, 1984 |
| Added to NRHP | October 11, 1984 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Master Site Record, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, n.d. Accessed 2014-06-23.
- 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.
