Cedar Grove (Providence Forge, Virginia)

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Cedar Grove is a historic plantation house located near Providence Forge, New Kent County, Virginia. The main section was built about 1810, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, single pile, brick structure. The frame section was added about 1916. It has a traditional one-room side-hall plan. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and several sheds added about 1916. It was the farm residence of the Christians, a leading county family of colonial and early-Republican times. The 19th-century cemetery contains the graves of the Christian family, including Letitia Christian Tyler, the first wife of President John Tyler.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Cedar Grove (Providence Forge, Virginia)
Emmaus Church Road,

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Emmaus Church Road
23141
Virginia, United States
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