Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia)

Trabue's Tavern, also known as Pleasant View, is a historic plantation house and former tavern located near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and consists of two parts—an early 1+12-story western wing with a lean-to and a later two-story eastern wing with a one-story rear lean-to. Both sections are frame structures with gable roofs. Also on the property are several contributing buildings: an outhouse, well house, dairy, smokehouse, two kitchen buildings, schoolhouse, and family cemetery. Macon Trabue installed a wrought iron fence around the cemetery in the mid-nineteenth century.[3]

Trabue's Tavern (Pleasant View)
Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia)
Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia) is located in the United States
Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia)
Location1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Midlothian on VA 677, near Midlothian, Virginia
Coordinates37°30′42″N 77°37′18″W / 37.51167°N 77.62167°W / 37.51167; -77.62167
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Builtc. 1730 (1730)
NRHP reference No.75002018[1]
VLR No.020-0055
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 10, 1975
Designated VLRFebruary 18, 1975[2]

The property was owned by the Trabue family, an ethnic French Huguenot family who were among the principal mine-owners in the town. They used the house as an inn patronized by travelers and miners alike. It formerly had a front porch which was eventually removed after the house was sold out of the family in 1956.[3]

The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

Trabue's Tavern around 1900

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pleasant View" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo