The John Franklin Cobb House, also known as the Cobb Plantation, is a historic house in rural Cherokee County, North Carolina. The oldest portion of the house is a log structure built in 1863, making it one of the few surviving pre-Civil War structures in the county. It is also notable as a place frequented by baseball legend Ty Cobb in his childhood; he was a grandson of the original builder, John Franklin Cobb. The house is, outside of the log cabin at its core, a rambling structure consisting of a variety of additions to the original log cabin. The house has been enclosed in weatherboarding since the 1880s. It was for many years the center of a farm of some 150-200 acres, and was in the Cobb family until 1977.[2]
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| Nearest city | Bell View, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°0′7″N 84°5′4″W / 35.00194°N 84.08444°W |
| Area | 5.9 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built | 1863 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000074[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 11, 1984 |
The house, as well as outbuildings on a roughly six-acre parcel, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1] The house is located about two tenths of a mile down a private drive, west of US Route 129-19, about seven-tenths of a mile south of its junction with SR 1583.[2]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for John Franklin Cobb House" (PDF). North Carolina Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-05-13.