The_Cove_(Harrisburg,_Virginia)

The Cove (Harrisburg, Virginia)

The Cove (Harrisburg, Virginia)

Historic house in Virginia, United States

The Cove is a historic plantation house located near Harrisburg, in Halifax County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1773, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, vernacular frame dwelling with a gable roof and flanking stone chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing two secondary dwellings, a hay barn, and two log tobacco barns (one of which has been converted to a dwelling); and sites including the ruins of four log barns, three chimneys, an ice house, a frame barn, a frame shed, a log house, and what are believed to be at least two slave quarters and an archeological site.[3]

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  3. [3]
    Kimberly M. Chen (March 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: The Cove" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos


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