Rochambeau Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near

Manakin-Sabot Manakin Sabot, consisting of the villages of Manakin and Sabot, is an affluent Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, Goochland County, Virginia, United States. It is located northwest of Richmond, Virginia, ...

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. The main dwelling was built about 1855, and is an L-shaped full two-story frame structure set on a common bond brick foundation in the

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style. It has a low

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and three single-story

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porches. Also on the property are the contributing library (c. 1750–1810), the woodshed with a three-hole privy in the rear, the old

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(1997). One contributing structure and two contributing sites include the original farm house well, the site of the old ice house and the vegetable garden, containing an

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. an
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in 1999.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1855 Houses in Goochland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Goochland County, Virginia {{GoochlandCountyVA-NRHP-stub