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
