Yates Tavern, also known as Yancy Cabin, is a historic

tavern A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern that h ...

located near Gretna,

Pittsylvania County, Virginia Pittsylvania County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 60,501. Chatham is the county seat. Pittsylvania County is included in the Danville, VA Micropolitan Statistical Ar ...

. The building dates to the late-18th or early-19th century, and is a two-story, frame building sheathed in weatherboard. It measures approximately 18 feet by 24 feet and has eight-inch jetty on each long side at the second-floor level. It is representative of a traditional hall-and-parlor Tidewater house. The building was occupied by a tavern in the early-19th century. It was restored in the 1970s. an
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in 1974.

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Yates Tavern
- Pittsylvania County Historical Society * *Research on Yates Tavern history and family graves on location, by Dail Yeatts. Book sources listed: https://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/yeattssd/001.pdf *Yates Family Cemetery, location map and coordiinates: http://www.yatesville.net/tngrey/showmap.php?cemeteryID=643&tree= Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia Drinking establishments on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Buildings and structures in Pittsylvania County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Pittsylvania County, Virginia {{PittsylvaniaCountyVA-NRHP-stub