Beaver Creek Plantation (Va.)

Beaver Creek Plantation, under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century. Located just outside today's Martinsville, Virginia, the plantation thrived in tobacco production and textile manufacturing, as well as producing household goods and raising livestock.

Beaver Creek Plantation; In 1776, George Hairston, a wealthy tobacco planter and one of the largest slaveholders in 18th-century Virginia, founded Beaver Creek Plantation near what is now the city of Martinsville

Colonel George Hairston (1750-1825) built Beaver Creek Plantation in 1776 just outside Martinsville in Henry County, Va.