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词条 Proffit Historic District
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name =Proffit Historic District
| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes
| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register
| designated_other1_date = September 14, 1998[1]
| designated_other1_number = 002-5019
| designated_other1_num_position = bottom
| image = Proffit-historic-sign 0602.jpg
| caption = Historic marker for the Proffit Historic District
| location= Roughly the area around the junction of the Southern Railroad tracks and VA 649, Proffit, Virginia
| coordinates = {{coord|38|6|36|N|78|25|26|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Virginia#USA
| area =
| built =1871
| architect= Brown, Ned; Cox, Elijah, et al.
| architecture= Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival
| added = February 5, 1999
| governing_body = Private
| refnum=99000145 [2]
}}

The Proffit Historic District is a national historic district located at Proffit, Albemarle County, Virginia. It encompasses 26 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the historic center of Proffit. Notable buildings and sites includes Evergreen Baptist Church, the Proffit Station Master's House, remains of the first Proffit Post Office, the Proffit Road Bridge, and several houses built by African-American families as far back as the 1880s.[3]

Proffit's history dates back to the 1870s when two former slaves, John Coles and Benjamin Brown, purchased some land from former slaveholder W.G. Carr. In 1876 Ned Brown purchased seventy-five acres in the area as well. Its settlement began and the community thrived.

Proffit is noted as one of the few African American communities in Albemarle County to survive after the American Civil War. Today it is a quiet residential area whose backbone is the Evergreen Baptist Church. The Church was built in 1891 by its first pastor, Reverend D.L. Gofney, and continues to be significantly involved in this historic community today.

The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[2]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|accessdate=May 12, 2013}}
2. ^{{NRISref|2007a}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Albemarle/002-5019_Proffit_HD_1999_Nomination_final.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Proffit Historic District |publisher=Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources|author=Geoffrey B. Henry and Melinda Frierson|date=February 1998}}, Accompanying photo, and Accompanying map
  • Proffit Historic District   - Virginia African Heritage Program

External links

  • Information on the Proffit Historic District from Virginia African Heritage Program
{{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia}}{{AlbemarleCountyVA-NRHP-stub}}

5 : National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia|Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia|Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia|Gothic Revival architecture in Virginia|Geography of Albemarle County, Virginia

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