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Cedar Grove (Providence Forge, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
79003058

Designated VLR
  
October 16, 1979

Added to NRHP
  
28 December 1979

VLR #
  
063-0036

Area
  
6 ha

Cedar Grove (Providence Forge, Virginia)

Location
  
Southwest of New Kent off VA 608, near Providence Forge, Virginia

Built
  
c. 1810 (1810), c. 1916

Cedar Grove is a historic plantation house located near Providence Forge, New Kent County, Virginia. The main section was built about 1810, and is a 2 1/2-story, single pile, brick structure. The frame section was added about 1916. It has a traditional one-room side-hall plan. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and several sheds added about 1916. It was the farm residence of the Christians, a leading county family of colonial and early-Republican times. The 19th-century cemetery contains the graves of the Christian family, including Letitia Christian Tyler, the first wife of President John Tyler.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Cedar Grove (Providence Forge, Virginia) Wikipedia


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