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Dixon , also known as Dixon 's Plantation , is a privately-owned , historic , plantation house in King and Queen County , Virginia on the Mattaponi River -- a tributary of the York River in one of Virginia 's historic slavery-dependent tobacco-growing regions .. plantation house. Plantation house in the Southern United States. Mattaponi River. Mattaponi River. York River. York River ( Virginia ). The property lies between the two unincorporated communities of Shacklefords and King and Queen Court House , Virginia .. unincorporated communities. unincorporated area. Shacklefords. Shacklefords, Virginia. Dated -LRB- by tree-rings -RRB- to 1793 , the plantation 's surviving central residence is a two-story , five bay , symmetrical frame house with a gambrel roof , brick foundation and brick end-walls -- the latter featuring flemish bond and internal -LRB- rather than expressed -RRB- chimneys .. tree-rings. Dendrochronology. Located between two adjacent plantations , the earliest owners of the property were William Meredith and subsequently Richard Dixon , of whom little is known .. The plantation and home are named after Richard Dixon , and he is credited with constructing the surviving residence .. At the time of its successful nomination to the National Register of Historic Places -LRB- NRHP -RRB- in 2005 , Dixon was one of eight surviving gambrel-roof residences from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in King and Queen County , Virginia .