This is intriguing -- it's not a planation I'd heard of and doesn't seem to figure in such an account of James River Plantations as that in Tyler's Cradle of the Republic, but photographs of it do show up through Google.

	http://www.shorpy.com/node/13129?size=_original#caption

Could it have been associated with Sandy Point?  If so, these accounts of Sandy Point might offer some indirect evidence about it:

	http://books.google.com/books?id=4GytG01theQC&lpg=PA215&ots=34X3NSpggn&dq=Tomahund&pg=PA213#v=onepage&q=Tomahund&f=false

	http://books.google.com/books?id=4GytG01theQC&lpg=PA215&ots=34X3NSpggn&dq=Tomahund&pg=PA343#v=onepage&q=Nicol&f=false

	http://books.google.com/books?id=4GytG01theQC&lpg=PA215&ots=34X3NSpggn&dq=Tomahund&pg=PA485#v=onepage&q=Nicol&f=false


On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Ronald Seagrave wrote:

> Anyone with data on Tomahund Plantation on the north side of the James River...
> 
> Ron Seagrave
> 

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