Site of Homestead

Site of Homestead is a Virginia historical marker in Greensville County, dedicated 2018.

Greensville County · dedicated 2018 · Rte. 58, 0.5 miles west of Chapman's Ford Road

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Near here stood Homestead, the plantation of James Mason (1744-1784), who served in the Revolutionary War first as a captain in the 15th Virginia Regiment and then as a colonel in the Brunswick County militia. It was also the home of his son Edmunds Mason (1770-1849), member of the Virginia General Assembly and county clerk, and birthplace of his grandchildren John Y. Mason (1799-1859), member of Congress and U.S. attorney general, and Dr. George Mason (1809-1895). About 90 enslaved African Americans labored here in 1860. Before the Civil War, Dr. Mason and his mother-in-law, Mary A. Jones, operated a school at Homestead that had opened at nearby West View about 1840.

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