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Poplar Hall Plantation: I-64 - MM 245.8 - EB
Poplar Hall Plantation straddles the Interstate 64 corridor on Virginia’s Peninsula, a position that places it on the principal road link between Richmond and Hampton Roads. The setting is part of a heavily wooded lowland between the James and York rivers, whose estuaries define much of this southeastern corner of Virginia. Interstate 64 carries long-distance traffic through the peninsula while broad bands of roadside forest remain. The wider area has an important place in American history: Williamsburg was Virginia’s colonial capital from 1699 to 1780, and the Virginia Peninsula was a major theatre of the Civil War. Poplar Hall Plantation sits at a meeting point of transport infrastructure, woodland and the region’s historic Tidewater landscape.
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