Fort Colvin, also known as Covill's Fort and Colvin House, is a historic home located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. It was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story, stone and frame building with a metal gable roof and interior chimney. It measures 24 feet by 34 feet and is nearly centrally positioned over a spring. Also on the property are a contributing site of a small domestic outbuilding and the ruins of a small footbridge. Fort Colvin is believed to have been built by some of the first European settlers in the first multi-ethnic community west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It is thought to have been used as a settler's fort by Joseph Colvill in 1755.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[2]
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- ↑ Sara K. Eskridge (December 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Colvin". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Frederick/034-0026_FortColvin_2007_NRfinal.pdf. and Accompanying photo
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