Project Spotlights
The Evolution of Virginia Agriculture on the Portici Cultural Landscape
Within the boundary of Manassas National Battlefield Park, Portici Plantation has been a fixture in the landscape since 1820, and it was preceded by an earlier plantation on the same property from around 1733. Portici is a historic landscape that demonstrates the development of historic agriculture in Virginia since European contact and up to the present day.
A partnership between the National Park Service and the University of Oregon, through the CESU Research Network, further clarified the cultural landscape of Manassas National Battlefield. You can learn more about the research by clicking this link: The Evolution of Virginia Agriculture on the Portici Cultural Landscape (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
This article was adapted from the Cultural Landscape Inventory documentation on Portici, Manassas National Battlefield Park, prepared by Angelina Riberio Jones in 2022.