MAKE A MEME View Large Image Bacon's Castle 1972.jpg Bacon's Castle State Route 617 Bacon's Castle vicinity Surry County VA The fine old brick mansion in the lower part of the County known as Bacon's Castle was built by Arthur Allen ancestor of the Claremont Allens in ...
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Keywords: Bacon's Castle 1972.jpg Bacon's Castle State Route 617 Bacon's Castle vicinity Surry County VA The fine old brick mansion in the lower part of the County known as Bacon's Castle was built by Arthur Allen ancestor of the Claremont Allens in 1665 It was referred to as Allen's Brick House During Bacon's Rebellion Major William Rookings Lieutenant Robert Burgess and Captain Arthur Long followers of Bacon seized this house of Allen's and made a fort of it It was thereafter known as Bacon's Castle Castle meaning fort On the 29th of December 1676 a fight occurred here between Bacon's followers and men from the British ship Young Prince lying in the James River Captain Robert Morris of the Young Prince claims to have carried the fort In the County records we find depositions made in 1677 which tell of the seizure of Allen's house and the behavior of the Rebel Crew while there At the time of the American Civil War Bacon's Castle was owned by Colonel John H Hankins His son James D Hankins was captain of the Surry Light Artillery C S A Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record LOC-image hhh va0955 en wikipedia TheDJ CommonsHelper 1972-11 Jack E Boucher/HABS VA-75 original upload log page en wikipedia 571348locimagecropped jpg 2008-08-13 00 20 Hohum 725×508× 189652 bytes <nowiki>Redownloaded from source recropped colour balanced </nowiki> 2005-11-15 08 38 Vaoverland 595×424× 26896 bytes <nowiki>Bacon's Castle State Route 617 Bacon's Castle vicinity Surry County VA Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record U S Library of Congress PD </nowiki> Bacon's Castle
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