The John Franklin Cobb House, also known as the Cobb Plantation, is a historic house in rural

Cherokee County, North Carolina Cherokee County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It borders Tennessee to its west and Georgia to its south. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,774. The county seat is Murphy, elevation 1604 ft. History ...

. The oldest portion of the house is a log structure built in 1863, making it one of the few surviving pre-

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structures in the county. It is also notable as a place frequented by baseball legend

Ty Cobb Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the ...

in his childhood; he was a grandson of the original builder, John Franklin Cobb. The house is, outside of the log cabin at its core, a rambling structure consisting of a variety of additions to the original log cabin. The house has been enclosed in weatherboarding since the 1880s. It was for many years the center of a farm of some 150-200 acres, and was in the Cobb family until 1977. The house, as well as outbuildings on a roughly six-acre parcel, were listed on the

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in 1984. The house is located about two tenths of a mile down a private drive, west of US Route 129- 19, about seven-tenths of a mile south of its junction with SR 1583.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1863 Houses in Cherokee County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, North Carolina 1863 establishments in North Carolina {{CherokeeCountyNC-NRHP-stub

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