Dunmore Plantation Adventure!

Yesterday we went looking for some good coastal fishing places on the Atlantic side and wound up investigating the ruins of Lord Dunmore's colonial-era plantation. He was the royalist governor of colonial Virginia who got his butt kicked out by some rebels named Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Mason, Etc. Like many of the Loyalists, he headed to the Bahamas.

Dunmore wound up governing from the Bahamas. Not sure if he governed from his plantation on Long Island or Nassau. When slavery was abolished the plantation was abandoned. We found two large stone structures, a cistern and many foundations that had crumbled. There were stone walls all over the area. We reached the path by following a decent road off the Queen's Highway to several homes on the Atlantic side, one home is named Ryan's View. We parked at a dead end road where we had a view of the ruins. Found the well camouflaged trail.