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Tankersley Tavern

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Built
  
c. 1835 (1835)

NRHP Reference #
  
88002179

Designated VLR
  
April 21, 1987

Added to NRHP
  
3 November 1988

Built by
  
John and Samuel Jordan

VLR #
  
081-0201

Area
  
8,000 m²

Tankersley Tavern

Location
  
VA 631, near Lexington, Virginia

Tankersley Tavern, also known as Old Bridge, is a historic building located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in three sections with the oldest dated to about 1835. It is a two-story, nine-bay, single pile, frame building with an exposed basement and a decorative two-level gallery on the front facade. Also on the property are the contributing washhouse/kitchen, three frame sheds and a stone abutment for a bridge. It was originally built as a toll house (toll gate) at the county end of the bridge crossing the Maury River from the Valley Turnpike into Lexington. It later housed a tavern, canal ticket office, general store, post office, and dwelling.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

Tankersley Tavern Wikipedia