Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation is a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Holdcroft, Charles City County, Virginia.
Located mostly north of today's Virginia State Route 5, these frame structures of the common planters were in contrast to the elaborate brick residences of the wealthiest families who developed plantations along the waterfront of the James River.
[1] Before English settlement in the seventeenth century, the Southall plantation site in Charles City County was part of the homeland of the Chickahominy (tribe).
The original portion of the Piney Grove house was constructed before 1790 as a log corn crib on the Southall plantation.
Southall also held a captainship of one of the Charles City County companies under Benjamin Harrison V of Berkeley Plantation.
During the late eighteenth century, residents of the plantation included Furneau Southall, his wife, and seven children.
Also housed here were sixteen slaves: Amy, Bess, Bristol, Critty, Dick, Dublin, Jack, Kate, Lucky, Nutty, Patsey, Pompy, Peter, Rippons, Rose, and Silvia.
He became a major landowner in Charles City County, purchasing properties such as Indian Fields, Weyanoke, and Upper Shirley.
Original outbuildings on the property include a smokehouse, chicken house, and small and large pole sheds to store farm equipment.
Hughes family photographs document there were formerly both large and small barns, and a dairy that are no longer standing.
The grounds include a collection of folk architecture moved to Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation to be spared from demolition at their original sites.