"Maplewood", also known as Sebrell-McCausland Farm, is a historic home and national

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located near

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Mason County, West Virginia Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, delegate to the U.S. ...

. The district includes eight contributing buildings and four contributing sites. The main house is a two-story

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-style brick farmhouse with wood siding. It features two round attic portholes and three porches. Also on the property are the following contributing buildings / sites: a coal house, chicken house, blacksmith shop, and well house all built about 1870; the Jenny Lind House (c. 1880); a schoolhouse / storage shed (c. 1890); machine shed (c. 1910); the ruins of the main barn and hog barn (c. 1870); and the Sebrell-McCausland Cemetery and Slave Cemetery, both established about 1850. It was listed on the

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in 2000.

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