Dover Slave Quarter Complex

845 Dover Rd., Manakin-Sabot, Virginia. County/parish: Goochland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 15, 2002. NRIS 02001005.

15 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • 037-5012
  • Brookview Farm

From Wikipedia:

Dover Slave Quarter Complex

The Dover Slave Quarter Complex is a set of five historic structures located on Brookview Farm near Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. They were built as one-story, two-unit, brick structures with steep gable roofs for housing African-American slaves. The houses are arranged in a wide arc, measuring 360 ft (110 m) in length. The center dwelling had a frame second-story added and its brick walls covered by siding when it was converted to an overseer's house. It has a recent rear addition.

In addition to the center dwelling, one of the former slave dwellings serves as the farm office, one serves as a woodworking shop, and the remaining two are used for storage. Also on the farm are the two early 20th-century contributing farm structures; one is an impressively long dairy barn, and there are two tenant houses, silos, and storage buildings.

The structures were listed as a group on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680987

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