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Fort Colvin

Coordinates: 39°8′26″N 78°13′31″W / 39.14056°N 78.22528°W / 39.14056; -78.22528
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Fort Colvin
Fort Colvin is located in Virginia
Fort Colvin
Fort Colvin is located in the United States
Fort Colvin
Location104 Stonebrook Rd., near Winchester, Virginia
Coordinates39°8′26″N 78°13′31″W / 39.14056°N 78.22528°W / 39.14056; -78.22528
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1750 (1750)
Architectural styleColonial
NRHP reference No.07000416[1]
VLR No.034-0026
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 8, 2007
Designated VLRMarch 7, 2007[2]

Fort Colvin, also known as Covill's Fort and Colvin House, is a historic home located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. It was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story, stone and frame building with a metal gable roof and interior chimney. It measures 24 feet by 34 feet and is nearly centrally positioned over a spring. Also on the property are a contributing site of a small domestic outbuilding and the ruins of a small footbridge. Fort Colvin is believed to have been built by some of the first European settlers in the first multi-ethnic community west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It is thought to have been used as a settler's fort by Joseph Colvill in 1755.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

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. ^ Sara K. Eskridge (December 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Colvin" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo