Built 1750 (1750) VLR # 046-0002 Opened 1750 | NRHP Reference # 07000194 Designated VLR September 6, 2006 Area 5,300 m² Added to NRHP 21 March 2007 | |
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Location 13060 Courthouse Hwy., near Smithfield, Virginia |
Robert Tynes House, also known as Tynes Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The house was built in 1750, and is a two-story, three bay, Georgian style brick dwelling with a gambrel roof. The interior features a center-passage single-pile plan. Also on the property are the contributing garden and well, smokehouse / frame shed, and kitchen foundation. In 1802, its owner Timothy Tynes granted manumission of his 81 slaves and the division of his 4,000 acre estate primarily to his slaves.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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