Dover Slave Quarter Complex facts for kids
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Dover Slave Quarter Complex
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Two of the houses
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 Location in Virginia
Location in the United States
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| Location | 845 Dover Rd., Manakin-Sabot, Virginia |
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| Area | 309.5 acres (125.3 ha) |
| Built | 1842 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 02001005 |
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| Added to NRHP | September 15, 2002 |
The Dover Slave Quarter Complex is a set of five historic structures located on Brookview Farm near Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. They were built as one-story, two-unit, brick structures with steep gable roofs for housing African slaves. The houses are arranged in a wide arc, measuring 360 feet in length. The center dwelling had a frame second-story added and its brick walls covered by siding when it was converted to an overseer's house. It has a recent rear addition.
In addition to the center dwelling, one of the former slave dwellings serves as the farm office, one serves as a woodworking shop, and the remaining two are used for storage. Also on the farm are the two early 20th-century contributing farm structures; one is an impressively long dairy barn, and there are two tenant houses, silos, and storage buildings.
The structures were listed as a group on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
