Cove, The

5059 Cove Rd., Harrisburg, Virginia. County/parish: Halifax.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 2006. NRIS 06000407.

6 contributing buildings. 14 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure. 1 contributing object.

Also known as:

  • VDHR #041-5086

From Wikipedia:

The Cove (Harrisburg, Virginia)

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.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681038

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