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Historic house in Virginia, United States United States historic place

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A. P. Carter Homeplace
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

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Location	SE of Maces Spring near jct. of VA 614 and VA 691, Maces Spring, Virginia
Coordinates	36°40′1″N 82°23′39″W / 36.66694°N 82.39417°W / 36.66694; -82.39417
Area	33 acres (13 ha)
Built	1891 (1891)
Architectural style	Log House
MPS	Carter Family TR
NRHP reference No.	76002118
VLR No.	084-0020
Added to NRHP	July 30, 1976
Designated VLR	April 16, 1985

A. P. Carter Homeplace is a historic home located at Maces Spring, Scott County, Virginia. It is a small, one-story, half-dovetailed log cabin, with a single room on the first floor and loft above. The house is most notable for its association with a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. It is the birthplace of Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Delaney Carter (1891–1960) of the Carter Family.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (February 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: A. P. Carter Homeplace" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

birthplace in 2016
birthplace in 2016

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A. P. Carter Sara Carter Maybelle Carter Helen Carter Anita Carter June Carter Cash Ezra Carter Janette Carter Joe Carter John Carter Cash Laura Cash
Compilation albums	Anchored in Love (1993) My Clinch Mountain Home (1993) When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland (1995) Worried Man Blues (1995) Sunshine in the Shadows (1997) Give Me the Roses While I Live (1997) Gold Watch and Chain (1998) Last Sessions (1998) Longing for Old Virginia (1998)
Songs	"Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)" "Engine One-Forty-Three" "Keep on the Sunny Side" "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" "I'm Working on a Building" "No Depression in Heaven" "Single Girl, Married Girl" "Wabash Cannonball" "When I'm Gone" "Wildwood Flower" "Worried Man Blues"
Related albums	A Living Legend (1965) The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family (2004) Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash (2007)
Related places	A. P. and Sara Carter House A. P. Carter Homeplace A. P. Carter Store Maybelle and Ezra Carter House Mt. Vernon Methodist Church Hendersonville Memory Gardens
Related musical acts	Carlene Carter Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters Johnny Cash Rosanne Cash Rosie Nix Adams Chet Atkins Robbie Harden Carter Family III Dale Jett
Biopics	Walk the Line Ring of Fire
Related	Discography Carter Family Fold Carter Family picking The Johnny Cash Show House of Cash Sunny Side of Life (1985 documentary)

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