Locust Grove | |
| Locust Grove NRHP Marker, March 2013 | |
| Location | Locust Grove Farm, VA 736, Rapidan, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°18′59″N78°02′46″W / 38.31639°N 78.04611°W |
| Area | 11.5 acres (4.7 ha) |
| Built | c. 1730-1840 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 85003131 [1] |
| VLR No. | 023-0049 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 10, 1985 |
| Designated VLR | August 13, 1985 [2] |
Locust Grove, also known as the Goodwin Farm, is a historic home located at Rapidan, Culpeper County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and expanded in at least four major building campaigns over the next half-century. It had its present configuration by 1840. The house is a 1+1⁄2-story, four-bay, log and frame structure featuring a central chimney, two-room plan main block flanked by early gable-end lean-tos and rear additions. It has a steep gable roof with modern dormers. It was renovated in the 1970s. Also on the property is a contributing mid-19th century smokehouse. [3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]
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Poplar Grove Mill and House is a historic tide mill and home located near Williams, Mathews County, Virginia. The tide mill is a two-story frame structure built after the American Civil War with a gable roof built on a narrow mole which separates a small lagoon or mill pond from the bay. It replaced an earlier mill destroyed during the war at which, it is believed, that corn was ground for General George Washington's troops when they camped nearby. The earliest portion of the miller's house is dated to about 1770, and is a small 2+1⁄2-story gambrel roof cottage which has been incorporated into the present five section house as an end wing. The central portion of the house is a late 18th-century temple-form building fronted by a later Ionic order portico. Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins, the famous woman Confederate officer, was born at Poplar Grove in 1833.
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Pilgrim's Rest, also known as Belle Mont Grove and Mount Wesley, is a historic home and national historic district located near Nokesville, Prince William County, Virginia. It dates to the 18th century, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, Tidewater style, frame dwelling with a double-pile, side hall plan. It has a one-story, gable-roofed, rebuilt kitchen and dining addition dated to 1956, when the house was remodeled. The house features a pair of unusual exterior brick chimneys on the south end with a two-story pent closet. Also included in the district are a late-19th century frame granary / barn, a frame, gable-roofed tool shed, and an icehouse constructed of concrete block with a metal gable roof. In 1996–1998, the Kinsley Granary was moved from the Buckland area of Prince William County, and is a 2+1⁄2-story stone structure that was rebuilt as a guest house.
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Snowville Christian Church, also known as Cypress Grove Christian Church, is a historic Christian Church church complex located in Snowville, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1864, and is a one-story, gable-roofed frame church building. The building measures 40 feet by 60 feet. It features pattern-book Greek Revival style columns and pilasters and the principal facade is topped by an octagonal bell tower.
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