Lower Sauratown Plantation

Lower Sauratown Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Eden, North Carolina
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1825 (1825)
NRHP reference No.	84000071[1]
Site 31RK1
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Southern side of the Dan River, southeast of Eden, near Eden, North Carolina[2]
Area	12 acres (4.9 ha)
NRHP reference No.	84002474[1]
Added to NRHP	May 24, 1984
Added to NRHP	October 11, 1984

Lower Sauratown Plantation includes the remnants of a historic plantation and archaeological site located near Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The plantation remnants include a plantation office building (c. 1825), a mid-19th century brick dwelling house, the Brodnax family cemetery, the remains of an extensive boxwood garden, and numerous below-grade foundations. The office and dwelling house were restored in 1983. Site 31RK1 is located on the Lower Sauratown Plantation and includes the remains of a large 17th-century Indian village of the Saura tribe. Lower Sauratown Plantation was the boyhood home of Governor Robert Broadnax Glenn, the adopted son of Dr. Edward T. Brodnax.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Master Site Record, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, n.d. Accessed 2014-06-23.
3. Lindley S. Butler and Michael T. Southern (July 1984). "Lower Sauratown Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.