Bacon's Castle, State Route 617, Bacon's Castle vicinity, Surry County, VA

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22 drawings
46 b&w photos
6 data pages
2 photo caption pages
3 color transparencies

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TITLE:
Bacon's Castle, State Route 617, Bacon's Castle vicinity, Surry County, VA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS VA,91-____,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 22 (18 x 24 in.)
Photo(s): 46 (4 x 5 in., 5 x 7, and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 5 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 3

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS VA-75

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-79).

Building/structure dates: 1665 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1740 subsequent work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000849

Significance: The fine old brick mansion in the lower part of the County, known as "Bacon's Castle", was built by Arthur Allen, ancestor of the Claremont Allens, in 1665. It was referred to as "Allen's Brick House." During Bacon's Rebellion, Major William Rookings, Lieutenant Robert Burgess and Captain Arthur Long, followers of Bacon, seized this house of Allen's and made a fort of it. It was thereafter known as "Bacon's Castle," "Castle" meaning fort. On the 29th of December, 1676, a fight occurred here between Bacon's followers and men from the British ship "Young Prince" lying in the James River. Captain Robert Morris of the "Young Prince" claims to have carried the fort. In the County records we find depositions made in 1677, which tell of the seizure of Allen's house and the behavior of the "Rebel Crew" while there. At the time of the American Civil War, "Bacon's Castle" was owned by Colonel John H. Hankins. His son, James D. Hankins, was captain of the Surry Light Artillery, C.S.A.

SUBJECTS:
VIRGINIA--Surry County--Bacon's Castle vicinity

OTHER TITLE:
Allen's Brick House

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.va0955

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
30. SOUTHWEST FRONT HABS VA,91---, 1-28
31. SOUTHWEST FRONT (CLOSER VIEW)
32. SOUTHWEST FRONT, NORTHERN (ORIGINAL) SECTION) (5' x 7' negative; 8' x 10' print)
33. NORTHWEST SIDE
34. NORTHEAST REAR
35. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST SIDE, CHIMNEYS, FROM THE SOUTH
36. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST SIDE, CHIMNEYS, FROM THE EAST
37. INTERIOR, BASEMENT, LOOKING NORTHEAST
38. INTERIOR, BASEMENT, DETAIL OF FIREPLACE
39. INTERIOR, BASEMENT, DETAIL OF DOOR
40. INTERIOR, BASEMENT, DETAIL OF CEILING
41. INTERIOR, FIRST FLOOR, WEST ROOM, LOOKING NORTHWEST
42. INTERIOR, FIRST FLOOR, SOUTHEAST ROOM
43. INTERIOR, FIRST FLOOR, DETAIL OF CEILING BEAMS
44. INTERIOR, SOUTHEASTERN ADDITION, FIRST FLOOR, STAIR HALL
45. INTERIOR, SOUTHEASTERN ADDITION, FIRST FLOOR, SOUTHERN CORNER ROOM
46. Photocopy of drawing (source unknown) Artist unknown ca. 1820 SOUTHWEST FRONT; NORTHWEST SIDE
47. SOUTHWEST FRONT 47. SOUTHWEST FRONT 47. SOUTHWEST FRONT
48. SOUTHWEST FRONT (CLOSER VIEW)
49. SOUTHWEST FRONT (CLOSER VIEW)

CONTROL #:
VA0955

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