Sweet Briar plantation (historical association)

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Sweet Briar plantation (historical association) was the 19th-century Virginia estate whose name and legacy later inspired and underlie the founding of Sweet Briar College.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic estate
plantation
associatedWith Daisy Williams NERFINISHED
Fletcher family NERFINISHED
Indiana Fletcher Williams NERFINISHED
Sweet Briar College NERFINISHED
Williams family NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedIn Sweet Briar College archival materials
histories of Sweet Briar College
existedInCentury 19th century
existedInPeriod Antebellum South NERFINISHED
hasCulturalContext U.S. slavery era
post–Civil War Southern reconstruction period
hasHistoricalRole origin estate for Sweet Briar College endowment
source of land bequeathed for women’s education
hasHistoricalStatus no longer exists as an active plantation
hasLegacy influenced name of Sweet Briar College
inspired founding of Sweet Briar College
provided land for Sweet Briar College campus
hasNameOrigin sweetbriar rose (Rosa rubiginosa)
hasRemnant grave sites associated with plantation families
historic buildings incorporated into Sweet Briar College
landscape features preserved on college grounds
hasSuccessor Sweet Briar College campus
hasToponymicLegacy Sweet Briar, Virginia NERFINISHED
hasTypeOfOwnership private estate
heritageRecognizedBy Sweet Briar College historical narratives
influenced campus landscape design of Sweet Briar College
iconography and branding of Sweet Briar College
locatedIn Southern United States
surface form: American South

Amherst County, Virginia NERFINISHED
Virginia
locatedOn site of present-day Sweet Briar College
partOf plantation economy of Virginia
preceded Sweet Briar College NERFINISHED
usedFor agricultural production
residential estate

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Sweet Briar, Virginia hasNameOrigin Sweet Briar plantation (historical association)