The Dover Slave Quarter Complex is a set of five historic structures located on Brookview Farm near

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. They were built as one-story, two-unit, brick structures with steep

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roofs for housing African-American slaves. The houses are arranged in a wide arc, measuring 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,

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s, and storage buildings. an
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in 2002.

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