Curles

He bought land from the Byrd land grant on the “Curles of the James River”.

Firedoglake » Calling Porter Goss… 2006

When the gentry started arriving from 1640 to about 1680, they bought some of the land around Curles and it came to be the plantation of one Nathaniel Bacon, who lost it after an unsuccessful rebellion against the Governor.

Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Who’s Your Hero? 2006

William also bought out several small farmers in the neighborhood to assemble his plantation, Turkey Island, and Curles, just upriver.

Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Who’s Your Hero? 2006

If you are sentimental about Curles and have some spare change, you could do the Scarlett/Tara thing.

Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Who’s Your Hero? 2006

Upon his arrival in Virginia he was welcomed by Sir William, and it was at his advice "or at least friendly approbation" that he purchased a plantation at Curles Neck, on the James, forty miles above

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922

I attended Curles Meeting, which, though small, was reviving to the honest-hearted.

IV. 1757, 1758 1909

He had left the town -- gone up the river in his sloop to his plantation at Curles Neck "to visit his wife, who, as she informed him, was indisposed."

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

There is also ye sensible plant, take but a Leafe between finger and thumb and squeeze it and it immediately Curles up together as if pained and after some tyme opens abroad again, it looks in Coullour like a filbert Leafe but much narrower and long.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

That Plantation which he chose to settle in is generally known by the name of Curles, situate in the upper part of James River and the time of his revolt was not till the beginning of March, 1675-6.

Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885

I attended Curles Meeting, which, though small, was reviving to the honest-hearted.

The Journal of John Woolman Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1871