NRHP Reference # 75002027 Designated VLR June 17, 1975 Added to NRHP 17 July 1975 | VLR # 067-0047 Area 8,000 m² Function Tavern, Inn | |
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Location 1.5 mi. W of Burkeville at jct. of VA 621 and VA 607, near Burkeville, Virginia | ||
Burke's Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located near Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia. It was built in the 1820s, and is a one-story frame building set upon a ground-level brick basement. The building has a central hall, single pile plan. It features brick exterior end chimneys. Near the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Union Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth of Delaware, wounded at the Battle of High Bridge was brought to the house, where he died on April 9. Smythe was the last Union general to be killed in the war.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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