Kippax Plantation

London native Robert Bolling, merchant and trader, acquired this property in the latter part of the 17th century. According to tradition, Pocahontas's son Thomas Rolfe and his daughter Jane Rolfe, who married Bolling, are buried here. Kippax, situated near a Native American trade route extending far to the southwest, was a site of cultural interaction among Europeans, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans. The forced labor of the enslaved sustained the plantation for nearly 200 years. In the 18th century Kippax belonged to Theodorick Bland Jr., colonel in the Revolutionary War and member of the first U.S. Congress. The Archaeological Conservancy purchased the property in 2006.