NRHP Reference # 73002029 Designated VLR September 19, 1972 Area 154 ha | Built 1790 (1790) VLR # 048-0027 Opened 1790 Added to NRHP 11 April 1973 | |
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Belle Grove is a historic plantation located on U.S. Route 301 in Port Conway, Virginia. The present plantation house was built in 1790.
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born on March 16, 1751, on Belle Grove plantation, in an earlier house which no longer stands. Belle Grove plantation was the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose "Nellie" Conway. Her father Francis Conway was the namesake for Port Conway.
On April 11, 1973, Belle Grove was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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