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200 yards south is “Poplar Grove,” Penn’s old home and burial place. At age 21 he “won his spurs” leading a company under General Lewis at Point Pleasant. During 1780–81 he organized the first Revolutionary troops from Henry and adjoining counties, . . . — — Map (db m65815) HM
Four miles to the north is Rock Spring Plantation, the boyhood home of industrialist R. J. Reynolds. The land was settled in 1814 by Abram Reynolds and his wife Mary Harbour. About 1843 their son Hardin William Reynolds built the present brick . . . — — Map (db m22412) HM
Built by Hardin Reynolds just prior
to his marriage in 1843, the house
that became known as Rock Spring
Plantation, faces the historic Norfolk
to Bristol Turnpike. Nearby was the
log dwelling of his father, Abram
Reynolds, who purchased 50 . . . — — Map (db m72851) HM
