Long Grass Plantation
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Long Grass
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Front view of Long Grass Plantation
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| Location | VA 826, Eppes Fork, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°33′16″N 78°20′42″W / 36.55444°N 78.34500°WCoordinates: 36°33′16″N 78°20′42″W / 36.55444°N 78.34500°W |
| Area | 40 acres (16 ha) |
| Built | 1800 |
| Built by | Holt, Jacob W. |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 95000894 |
| VLR # | 058-0185 |
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| Added to NRHP | July 21, 1995 |
| Designated VLR | April 28, 1995 |
Long Grass Plantation is a historic house and national historic district located along what was the Roanoke River basin. In the 1950s most of it was flooded and became the Buggs Island Lake/John H. Kerr Reservoir in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The house was built circa 1800 by George Tarry on land belonging to his father, Samuel Tarry and Long Grass Plantation encompassed approximately 2000 acres (8 km²).
Today, most of the land once belonging to the plantation is submerged and is owned by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Only 27 +/- acres of privately owned land make up the grounds of Long Grass plantation. The property was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Registry and the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1995.
The original C. 1797 hall and parlor structure still exists. This small dwelling probably already existed when George Tarry moved to Long Grass Plantation. It was added to during renovations and expansions in four major phases, two in the nineteenth century and two in the twentieth century, from the 1830s to the mid 1990s.
The current structure is dominated by the additions made in 1832 by the builder-architect Jacob W. Holt of Warrenton, North Carolina. In 1831-1832, Holt was commissioned to add a 2-story, single-pile, 3-bay structure to the front of the original 1797 1.5 story house. The two sections were connected via a 1-story hyphen with large windows on its side walls. The 1832 Greek Revival home in the front is much larger in scale and mass than the original 1797 hall and parlor house. The new front has a neoclassical entrance and porch (probably salvaged from an earlier home in Warren County or along the Roanoke River), This porch features many "Jeffersonian" details, and the double front door surrounded by glass transom and sidelights which were mentioned in the book, Life on the Roaring Roanoke. This spacious new addition was an indication of the family's improving economic fortune generated from tobacco cultivation by slave labor. It was built as a wedding present in 1832, when George Tarry married Mary Euphemia Hamilton.
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