Jubal A. Early House, also known as the Jubal A. Early Homeplace and Archeological Site, is a historic home and

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...

located near

Boones Mill Boones Mill is a town in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The population was 239 in 2018, down from 285 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Boones Mill was incorporated in 1927. It was ...

Franklin County, Virginia Franklin County is located in the Blue Ridge foothills of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,477. Its county seat is Rocky Mount. Franklin County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area ...

. The original dwelling was built in the first decade of the 19th century, and enlarged after 1847. It is a two-story, four bay, frame dwelling with a side gable roof. It has a rear ell and takes a "T" shape. It was the childhood home of Confederate General

Jubal Early Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a Virginia lawyer and politician who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Trained at the United States Military Academy, Early resigned his U.S. Army commissio ...

(1816-1894), whose father Joab managed a tobacco plantation of more than 4,000 acres. The property was sold by the Early family in 1847. The Jubal A. Early Preservation Trust has owned the property since 1995.Jubal A. Early, Preservation Trust, Inc. website
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in 1997.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1816 Houses in Franklin County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Virginia 1816 establishments in Virginia Jubal A. Early {{FranklinCountyVA-NRHP-stub