Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia)
Trabue's Tavern, also known as Pleasant View, is a historic plantation house and former tavern located near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and consists of two parts—an early 1+1⁄2-story western wing with a lean-to and a later two-story eastern wing with a one-story rear lean-to. Both sections are frame structures with gable roofs. Also on the property are several contributing buildings: an outhouse, well house, dairy, smokehouse, two kitchen buildings, schoolhouse, and family cemetery. Macon Trabue installed a wrought iron fence around the cemetery in the mid-nineteenth century.[3]
Trabue's Tavern (Pleasant View) | |
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| Location | 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Midlothian on VA 677, near Midlothian, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°30′42″N 77°37′18″W / 37.51167°N 77.62167°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | c. 1730 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75002018[1] |
| VLR No. | 020-0055 |
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| Added to NRHP | June 10, 1975 |
| Designated VLR | February 18, 1975[2] |
The property was owned by the Trabue family, an ethnic French Huguenot family who were among the principal mine-owners in the town. They used the house as an inn patronized by travelers and miners alike. It formerly had a front porch which was eventually removed after the house was sold out of the family in 1956.[3]
The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ a b Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pleasant View" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo