John Franklin Cobb House

John Franklin Cobb House
Nearest city Bell View, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°0′7″N 84°5′4″W / 35.00194°N 84.08444°W / 35.00194; -84.08444Coordinates: 35°0′7″N 84°5′4″W / 35.00194°N 84.08444°W / 35.00194; -84.08444
Area 5.9 acres (2.4 ha)
Built 1863 (1863)
NRHP Reference # 84000074[1]
Added to NRHP October 11, 1984

The John Franklin Cobb House, also known as the Cobb Plantation, is a historic house in rural Cherokee County, North Carolina. The oldest portion of the house is a log structure built in 1863, making it one of the few surviving pre-Civil War structures in the county. It is also notable as a place frequented by baseball legend Ty Cobb in his childhood; he was a grandson of the original builder, John Franklin Cobb. The house is, outside of the log cabin at its core, a rambling structure consisting of a variety of additions to the original log cabin. The house has been enclosed in weatherboarding since the 1880s. It was for many years the center of a farm of some 150-200 acres, and was in the Cobb family until 1977.[2]

The house, as well as outbuildings on a roughly six-acre parcel, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1] The house is located about two tenths of a mile down a private drive, west of US Route 129-19, about seven-tenths of a mile south of its junction with SR 1583.[2]

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for John Franklin Cobb House" (PDF). North Carolina Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-05-13.


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