Bolling/Bowling
Sites
Current
Name of Site: Kippax
Previous Names of Site: Farmingdale, Smokey Lane
Type of Site:
House and land
Original Owner:
Robert Bolling I
Date of Original
Construction: 1670-1675
Current Condition:
House no longer exists
Last Bolling Family Owner:
Theodoric Bland, Jr. (Frances Bolling Bland’s son)
Street Address:
1001 Bland Avenue
City:
Hopewell
County:
Prince George
State: VA
Country: USA
Nearest City:
Petersburg
Access Possibilities:
People are permitted to park in driveway area just off Pocahontas Street
and walk approximately 100 feet up driveway remaining away from the current
house.
Driving Directions:
From I-295, exit 9B, go east on Rt. 36 to Ashland Street, turn left,
proceed two block, cross RR tracks, continue north on Cedar Level Road to
Pocahantas Street (approximately 1000 feet) turn right, then immediate left on
Bland Avenue, which ends there.
Current Owner:
Misses Jennie and Valma Heretick
Phone:
Mailing Address:
1001 Bland Avenue
E-mail:
Website:
Other Contact Information:
Other Current Contacts:
Bolling Family
Significance: Robert Bolling took
his bride, Jane Rolfe, to live here.
Number of generations:
Four generations: Robert Bolling I, Drury Bolling, Frances Bolling Bland,
Theodorick Bland Jr.
Historical Significance:
Thomas Rolfe, (son of Pocahantas and John Rolfe) and his daughter Jane
Rolfe Bolling are buried there.
Summary of Site History:
Succeeding Owners:
Martha Dangerfield Bland Blodget Curran, Samuel Perkins, Thomas Cocke and
Peyton Mason, Joshua Poythress, John Henry Timson, John Batte, Francis E. Green,
Robert Gilliam, Jr., Steven Heretick, Jennie Heretick and Valma Heretick
Details of Building and
Grounds:
Full History of the Site:
An archeological dig has been on going since (still researching)
Graves on Site:
Jane Rolfe Bolling (d.1676), Thomas Rolfe (1615-1680) others unknown
Noteworthy Cemeteries
Nearby: Cobbs, Blandford
(Petersburg)
Family Heirlooms at Site:
None
Other Interesting Facts:
Robert Bolling was buried at Kippax, as was Jane, his first wife, and
probably Anne Stith, his second wife, as well as other family members.
Eventually, the family graveyard was left unattended.
Robert Buckner Bolling, great grandson of Robert I, moved the remains of
the succeeding male heirs only, to a newly built mausoleum at Blandford Cemetary.
An article in the Hopewell News, dated July 23, 1943, stated that Thomas
Rolfe, as well as his daughter, Jane Rolfe, were lying in unmarked graves at
Kippax. Attorney and Mrs. Thomas Brown Robertson arranged with Dr.
Hamilton James Eckenrode, Director of History and Archaeology for the Virginian
Antiquities to mark the graves before the site was lost for all time.
The two markers can be seen about 100 feet to the east of where Bland
Avenue ends and 25 feet from the side of the driveway.
Family Blood lines of
Previous Owners: Robert Bolling I
married Jane Rolfe, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahantas and John Rolfe
Other Bolling Sites Nearby:
Cedar Level, Mitchells, Cawsons, Bolling homes in Petersburg
Sources of Information:
James Patton, Julian Robertson, Mary Mitchell Calos
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