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Samuel Pleasants Parsons House

Samuel Pleasants Parsons House is a Virginia historical marker in Richmond (Ind. City) County, dedicated 2003.

Richmond (Ind. City) County · dedicated 2003 · 601 Spring Street, near intersection with Belvidere Street (Rte. 1/301)

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Completed in 1819, 601 Spring Street was the home of Samuel Pleasants Parsons (1783-1842). Parsons, a Quaker, was an early reform-minded superintendent (1816-1822, 1824-1832) of the Virginia State Penitentiary, formerly located across Belvidere Street. The Parsons family was part of a network of important Richmond Quaker families that were collectively involved in a series of abolition and prison reform activities. Parsons later served as a superintendent for the James River and Kanawha Company and was a founder of the Mechanicsville Turnpike. The house is a part of the Oregon Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Department of Historic Resources, 2003

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