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Edenetta, located in the Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District, was the plantation and family seat for two of Essex County’s most prominent and long-established families, the Warings and the Baylors. The antebellum history of the property is represented by the significant number of buildings, structures, and agricultural fields it retains, which were shaped by the enslaved African Americans who worked there for decades. Edenetta’s historic antebellum resources illustrate the wealth and productivity generated by an enslaved workforce. The main house at Edenetta was built around 1800 in a Federal style and renovated about 1850 with Greek Revival–style elements. Architectural features from both building campaigns survive today including well-preserved, undamaged mantels and plasterwork more than 150 years old. Edenetta also retains an intact early-19th-century domestic complex and a historic family cemetery.
Edenetta
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Location 6514 Tidewater Trail, near Chance, Virginia Coordinates 38°03′47″N 77°1′23″W / 38.06306°N 77.02306°W Area 263 acres (106 ha) NRHP reference No. 16000796[1] Added to NRHP November 22, 2016 Edenetta is a historic farm property at 6514 Tidewater Trail (United States Route 17) in rural northern Essex County, Virginia, west of the hamlet of Chance. The main house is a two-story brick building, constructed in the first decade of the 19th century by a member of the locally prominent Waring family. It was originally Federal in style, but was given Greek Revival features in the 1840s. The property, which includes a smokehouse and kitchen, remained in the Waring family until 1984.[2]
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1]
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- ^ a b “National Register Information System”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ “NRHP nomination for Edenetta” (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
