The Cove | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | August 21, 1991[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 041-5086 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 36.9828°N -78.7475°W |
Added: | May 11, 2006 |
Refnum: | 06000407 |
The Cove is a historic plantation house located near Harrisburg, in Halifax County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1773, and is a -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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.