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An elegant Italianate-style brick house, Lackawanna was built in 1869 on a 1.75-acre site overlooking the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. Lackawanna is in the Riverton Historic District section at the northern end of the town of Front Royal. The house was built for Dorastus Cone, who came to the Shenandoah Valley from the Lackawanna Valley of Pennsylvania to operate a large merchant mill and other businesses. Unusual for its time, the Warren County house was constructed with a bathroom with running water and walk-in closets. In 1904, a Classical Revival-style front porch was added to Lackawanna.
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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
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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
