Pleasant Point

Pleasant Point, also known as Crouches Creek Plantation, is a historic home located near Scotland, Surry County, Virginia. It was built about 1724, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, double pile frame dwelling with brick ends.

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Type: Historic house
Description: historic home located near Scotland, Surry County, Virginia, United States
Address: 642 Pleasant Point Road, 23883

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pitch and Tar Swamp and Jamestown Tercentennial Monument.

Pitch and Tar Swamp

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Pitch and Tar Swamp is situated 2½ miles north of Pleasant Point.

Jamestown Tercentennial Monument

Work of art

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The Jamestown Tercentennial Monument is an obelisk-shaped monument erected in Historic Jamestown in Jamestown, Virginia, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown Colony. The monument was installed in 1907. Jamestown Tercentennial Monument is situated 2½ miles north of Pleasant Point.

Jamestown Church

Building

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Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall. Jamestown Church is situated 2½ miles north of Pleasant Point.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scotland and Jamestown.

Scotland

Village

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Scotland also known as Scotland Wharf is a census-designated place in Surry County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Scotland had a population of 153.

Jamestown

Locality

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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day Williamsburg. Jamestown is situated 2½ miles north of Pleasant Point.

Surry

Village

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Surry is an incorporated town in Surry County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Surry had a population of 208. It is the county seat of Surry County. Its name is derived from the county of Surrey in England. Surry is situated 4 miles southwest of Pleasant Point.

Pleasant Point

Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Surry, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.17382° or 37° 10′ 26″ north

Longitude

-76.77542° or 76° 46′ 32″ west

Open location code

879556FF+GR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 857289289

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=house

Wikidata ID

Q15267045

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