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John Franklin Cobb House

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Built
  
1863 (1863)

Opened
  
1863

Added to NRHP
  
11 October 1984

NRHP Reference #
  
84000074

Area
  
2 ha

John Franklin Cobb House

Nearest city
  
Bell View, North Carolina

John franklin cobb house top 7 facts


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.

The house, as well as outbuildings on a roughly six-acre parcel, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 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.

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John Franklin Cobb House Wikipedia


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