Bennett's Home

Bennett's Home is a Virginia historical marker in Suffolk County, dedicated 1948.

Suffolk County · dedicated 1948 · Rte. 337, just east of intersection with Rte. 125

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On this stream, Bennett's Creek, stood the home of Richard Bennett. He was one of the commissioners to "reduce" Virginia after the victory of Parliament in the civil war in England, 1651, and the first governor under the Cromwellian domination, 1652-1655.

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