Hardscrabble, also known as Pleasant Grove, is a historic plantation home located near
Bahama
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. It ...
,
Durham County, North Carolina
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. It consists of two houses, one
Georgian and one
Federal, covered by a common cross-gable roof in the late-19th century. The Georgian was built about 1779 and the Federal section in the 1790s.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1972.
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Georgian architecture in North Carolina
Federal architecture in North Carolina
Houses completed in 1779
Houses in Durham County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina
Plantation houses in North Carolina
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