Greenway Plantation

Greenway
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Greenway
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Location	Greenway, Charles City County, Virginia
Coordinates	37°21′15″N 77°6′6″W / 37.35417°N 77.10167°W / 37.35417; -77.10167
Area	0 acres (0 ha)
Built	1775; 249 years ago (1775)
NRHP reference No.	69000336[1]
VLR No.	018-0010
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 12, 1969
Designated VLR	September 9, 1969[2]

Greenway Plantation is a wood-frame, 1+1⁄2-story plantation house in Charles City County, Virginia. Historic Route 5 and the Virginia Capital Trail bikeway, both of which connect Williamsburg and Richmond pass to slightly south of this private home. Located just west of the county seat Charles City Courthouse, Virginia, Greenway is one of Charles City's earliest and most distinctive Colonial plantations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.^[1] Other Virginia historic sites built in the same era and with similar names are considerably west: Greenway Court, Virginia, built in 1747 and mostly demolished in the 1830s, now in Clarke County (which had been the seat of Lord Fairfax, who inherited the Northern Neck Propriety and was an employer and friend of George Washington and the only British nobleman to live in Virginia during the American Revolutionary War), and Greenway (Madison Mills, Virginia) a house built circa 1780 for Francis Madison, the brother of President James Madison.