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Smith's Fort Plantation
Rolfe Hwy,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
37° 8' 11.040396",
-76° 50' 7.165824"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Captain John Smith began Smith's Fort in 1609, two years after the first permanent English colony in the New World was established at Jamestown. The remains of the fort, a two-foot-high earthwork, constitute the oldest extant structure of English origin in Virginia. The fort stands on a high bluff overlooking Gray's Creek and encloses a triangle of about two hundred feet on each side. Thomas Rolfe, the only child of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, probably owned this tract. The house is a mid-18th-century Tidewater plantation dwelling likely built for Jacob Faulcon, Surry County clerk, from 1781 to 1801.
Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00 |
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Smith's Fort Plantation Virginia Map
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