Hardscrabble, also known as Pleasant Grove, is a historic plantation home located near

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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

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in 1972.

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