Greenfield (Fincastle, Virginia)

Coordinates: 37°26′17″N 79°54′50″W / 37.43806°N 79.91389°W

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Greenfield
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

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Location	Botetourt Center at Greenfield, U.S. Route 220, Fincastle, Virginia
Coordinates	37°26′17″N 79°54′50″W / 37.43806°N 79.91389°W / 37.43806; -79.91389
Area	0.86 acres (0.35 ha)
Built	c. 1832 (1832), c. 1850
NRHP reference No.	10000792^[1]
VLR No.	011-0026
Added to NRHP	June 28, 2011
Designated VLR	June 17, 2010^[2]
Removed from NRHP	January 6, 2022

Greenfield, also known as Col. William Preston Plantation, Preston House, and Botetourt Center at Greenfield, is a historic plantation site located at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. The first plantation established by surveyor, militia officer and burgess William Preston (1729-1783) and which used enslaved labor beginning with his purchase of 16 Africans from the ship True Blue on August 28, 1759 in Nanjemoy, Maryland for 752pounds (to avoid a 5% Virginia sales tax), Greenfield became one of Botetourt County's largest plantations, encompassing more than 1,200 acres by the 1770s.^[3] In 1774 Col. Preston moved his family to another plantation, Smithfield, and a series of white overseers managed the farm, orchard and distillery at Greenfield.^[4]

Because fire had destroyed the plantation house in 1959, and the only remaining historic buildings were kitchen/quarters (c. 1832) and saddlebag slave dwelling (c. 1850), which were moved to the Bowyer-Holladay House nearby, although listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, Greenfield was delisted in January 2022.^[1]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 7/05/11 through 7/08/11. National Park Service. September 2, 2011. Archived from the original on November 4, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
^ Daniel B. Thorp, In the True Blue's Wake, (University of Virginia Press 2022 ISBN=978-0-8139-4723-5) p. 11
^ Michael J. Pulice & John R. Kern (April 2010). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Greenfield" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying five photos
^ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/011-0028/

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