Trabue's Tavern (Midlothian, Virginia)

Trabue's Tavern, also known as Pleasant View, is a historic plantation house and former tavern located near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and consists of two parts—an early 1+1⁄2-story western wing with a lean-to and a later two-story eastern wing with a one-story rear lean-to. Both sections are frame structures with gable roofs. Also on the property are several contributing buildings: an outhouse, well house, dairy, smokehouse, two kitchen buildings, schoolhouse, and family cemetery. Macon Trabue installed a wrought iron fence around the cemetery in the mid-nineteenth century.^[3]

Trabue's Tavern (Pleasant View)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Midlothian on VA 677, near Midlothian, Virginia
Coordinates	37°30′42″N 77°37′18″W
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	c. 1730 (1730)
NRHP reference No.	75002018[1]
VLR No.	020-0055
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 10, 1975
Designated VLR	February 18, 1975[2]

The property was owned by the Trabue family, an ethnic French Huguenot family who were among the principal mine-owners in the town. They used the house as an inn patronized by travelers and miners alike. It formerly had a front porch which was eventually removed after the house was sold out of the family in 1956.^[3]

The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

Trabue's Tavern around 1900