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+12-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. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  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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