The Cove is a historic plantation house near Harrisburg in Halifax County, Virginia. Its main house, a one-and-a-half-story vernacular frame dwelling with a gable roof and flanking stone chimneys, was built around 1773 for county surveyor and vestryman William Sims, who had acquired the land by 1768 and established a tobacco plantation there. The Sims and Coleman families, connected by marriage, held the property for nearly two centuries and were among the largest planters and enslavers in Halifax County. The 1,123-acre property, which also includes two secondary dwellings, a hay barn, two log tobacco barns, and the remains of other structures including believed slave quarters, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 2006, and is now held by the Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation under a conservation easement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountVirginia, United States 2 Completed Year Building Type
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1. The Cove (Harrisburg, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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The Cove is a historic plantation house near Harrisburg in Halifax County, Virginia. Its main house, a one-and-a-half-story vernacular frame dwelling with a gable roof and flanking stone chimneys, was built around 1773 for county surveyor and vestryman William Sims, who had acquired the land by 1768 and established a tobacco plantation there. The Sims and Coleman families, connected by marriage, held the property for nearly two centuries and were among the largest planters and enslavers in Halifax County. The 1,123-acre property, which also includes two secondary dwellings, a hay barn, two log tobacco barns, and the remains of other structures including believed slave quarters, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 2006, and is now held by the Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation under a conservation easement.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
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
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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.
View the Source2. The Cove (Harrisburg, Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 415863): Virginia, United States
Wikidata item Q14713296, property P131/P17 (location): Virginia, United States
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Wikidata P149
architectural style: modern architecture
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