Hare Forest Farm
Historic house in Virginia, United States
United States historic place
Hare Forest Farm | |
Virginia Landmarks Register | |
 Hare Forest Farm, Orange County, VA – Purported birthplace of Zachary Taylor (Wings to the right of main section added later) | |
38°17′12″N 78°4′46″W / 38.28667°N 78.07944°W / 38.28667; -78.07944 | |
| Area | 62 acres (25 ha) |
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| Built | c. 1815 (1815) |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 91002016[1] |
| VLR No. | 068-0124 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 28, 1992 |
| Designated VLR | April 17, 1991[2] |
Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the Federal style, a two-story brick dining room wing which dates from the early 20th century, and a mid-20th-century brick kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing stone garage, a 19th-century frame smokehouse with attached barn, an early-20th-century frame barn, a vacant early-20th-century tenant house, a stone tower, an early-20th-century frame tenant house, an abandoned storage house, as well as the stone foundations of three dwellings of undetermined date. The land was once owned by William Strother, maternal grandfather of Zachary Taylor, and it has often been claimed that the future president was born on the property.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Geoffrey Henry (March 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hare Forest Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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Zachary Taylor
- 12th President of the United States (1849–1850)
- Hare Forest Farm
- 7th Infantry Regiment
- Cypress Grove Plantation
- Forts of Vincennes, Indiana
- Fort Harrison, Indiana
- Battle of Wild Cat Creek
- Credit Island
- Fort Johnson
- Fort Howard
- Fort Jesup
- Fort Snelling
- Fort Crawford
- 1st Infantry Regiment
- Fort Gardiner
- Fort Basinger
- Battle of Lake Okeechobee
- Army of Occupation
- Battle of Palo Alto
- Battle of Resaca de la Palma
- Battle of Monterrey
- Battle of Buena Vista
- Congressional Gold Medal
- 1848 United States presidential election
- 1848 Whig National Convention
- Zachary Taylor and slavery
- Margaret Taylor (wife)
- Sarah Knox Taylor (daughter)
- Mary Elizabeth Bliss (daughter)
- Richard Taylor (son)
- John Taylor Wood (grandson)
- Zachary Taylor Wood (great-grandson)
- Charles Carroll Wood (great-grandson)
- Stuart Wood (great-great-grandson)
- Richard Taylor (father)
- Joseph Pannell Taylor (brother)
- Isaac Allerton Jr. (great-great-grandfather)
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