The Cove | |
Location | 5059 Cove Rd., near Harrisburg, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 36°58′58″N 78°44′51″W / 36.98278°N 78.74750°W |
Area | 1,123 acres (454 ha) |
Built | 1773 |
NRHP reference No. | 06000407[1] |
VLR No. | 041-5086 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | May 11, 2006 |
Designated VLR | August 21, 1991[2] |
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]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]