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Duke House, also known as Little River Farm, is a historic home located at Bumpass,
Louisa County, Virginia Louisa County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,596. The county seat is Louisa. History Prior to colonial settlement, the area comprising Louisa County was occupied by sever ...
. It was built about 1790, and is a -story, frame dwelling sheathed with beaded weatherboards with an asymmetrical façade and double-shouldered exterior-end brick chimneys. It has a traditional single-pile, central-passage plan. A wing was added to the west end of the house during the first quarter of the 20th century. Also on the property are a contributing frame dependency and family
cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...
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in 2007.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Georgian architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1747 Houses in Louisa County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Louisa County, Virginia {{LouisaCountyVA-NRHP-stub