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Capt. John S. Pope Farm

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Built
  
c. 1870 (1870)-1874

NRHP Reference #
  
13000206

Added to NRHP
  
23 April 2013

Architectural style
  
I-house

Area
  
30 ha

Capt. John S. Pope Farm

Location
  
6909 Efland-Cedar Grove Rd., near Cedar Grove, North Carolina

Capt. John S. Pope Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex located near Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built between 1870 and 1874, and is a two-story, frame I-house with a one-story ell. It sits on a stone pier foundation, has a triple gable roof, and features stone gable end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing well house (c. 1920), washhouse (c. 1875, 1930s), garage / smokehouse (c. 1900, c. 1920), flower house (c. 1900), two corn cribs (c. 1900, c. 1930), feed barn (c. 1900), tobacco ordering/stripping house (c. 1935), two curing barns (c. 1955), stick shed (c. 1950), five tobacco barns (c. 1875-1955), a spring-fed well (c. 1909), workshop (c. 1960), a small log building (c. 1880), two wood sheds (c. 1920, c. 1950), and the surrounding agricultural landscape.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

References

Capt. John S. Pope Farm Wikipedia