“It is a significant property for several reasons,” Barnett said. “It is very similar to what it appeared like 100 and 200 years ago. It is a large tract and one of the largest in Henrico County. Part of it is an operating farm.”

The most significant is its history. The land was used during three wars — as an encampment used by Marquis de Lafayette in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War; a Virginia militia camp during the War of 1812; and the Battle of Malvern Hill, also known as the Battle of Poindexter’s Farm, fought on July 1, 1862.

The National Park Service might be interested in buying some of the land, he said, because it is within parcels that it has been authorized to acquire.

The property also is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places with the primary dwelling constructed as early as 1662. The house burned down in 1905 but the remains are architecturally significant as one of the few examples of cruciform-plan houses in Virginia.

There are five houses on the property — “two look like country farm houses with a little bit of character. They are not large or estate homes, but they have a sense of place to them,” Barnett said. Three other homes probably were used by tenants or workers, he said.