April 12, 2024
Beaver Creek Plantation Hairston Family Martinsville Virginia VA stories history
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The Stories of Beaver CreekAs Gleaned from Family Letters and Recordsby Peter W. HairstonTaken from jacket: This book provides stories about the residents of the Hairston plantation and manor house that still stands just three miles north of Martinsville, Virginia. The Hairstons arrived in Virginia by the 1740s and George, the grandson of Peter Hairston "the Immigrant," constructed the original Beaver Creek manor house in 1776.note: Beaver Creek Plantation , under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century. Located just outside of today's Martinsville, VA , the plantation thrived in tobacco production and textile manufacturing, as well as producing household goods and raising livestock. At one point the enslaved blacks of Beaver Creek were tending a thousand yam plants; in one day they made 660 candles.Hard cover with jacket ; copyright 2003 like new condition ; 88 pages ; nice, clean pages ; good binding ; black & white photos throughout
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