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Oak Grove in Campbell County was built in stages between the 1750s and 1833. Its varied elements capture the gradual evolution of Virginia architecture during that time. It began as a two-story dogtrot log house built by tobacco farmer John Payne. His son, Philip, inherited the property in 1784 and enlarged it. His son, Philip M. Payne, completed it by 1833 with the addition of a classic two-story, three-bay dwelling with a side-hall plan. The house retains most of its interior trim, some of it with significant false-grained finishes. Extant outbuildings on the Oak Grove property include a smokehouse, slave quarter, grain shed, and hay barn.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
