Nomination Form
This Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) Form facilitates the nomination to the registers of resources spanning hundreds of years that occupied the Bermuda Hundred in Chesterfield County. The phases explored in the MPD are titled: The Proto-Historic Period; The Appomattox Indians at Bermuda Hundred, ca. 1600-1611; The Virginia Company Period, 1612-1624; Early Plantations, Port and Market Center, 1625-1690; The Golden Age of Planters and Merchants, 1691-1784; The Customhouse Era, 1785-1800; Transformation, 1801-1860; The Beast and the Bright Hope, 1861-1918; and A Quiet Decline, 1919-1940.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Nomination Form
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
