Pleasant View (Midlothian, Virginia)

Pleasant View
Location 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Midlothian on VA 677, near Midlothian, Virginia
Coordinates 37°30′42″N 77°37′18″W / 37.51167°N 77.62167°W / 37.51167; -77.62167Coordinates: 37°30′42″N 77°37′18″W / 37.51167°N 77.62167°W / 37.51167; -77.62167
Area 4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built c. 1730 (1730)
NRHP reference # 75002018[1]
VLR # 020-0055
Significant dates
Added to NRHP June 10, 1975
Designated VLR February 18, 1975[2]

Pleasant View, also known as Trabue's Tavern, is a historic plantation house located near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and consists of two parts—an early 1 1/2-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]

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.[3]

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

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 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


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