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of Laurel Cove, VA.
A Brief History of Laurel Cove, Virginia
The Laurel Cove community was developed
in the late 1960's/early 1970's by the Lake Conrad
Corporation (LCC), who purchased the land from the previous
owner in 1965. The 5 models offered at the time were all
located at the corner of Willowood Lane and Laurel Cove
Drive, and, in 1973, sold for around $35,000. Mrs. Dorothy
Roberts, wife of former TV personality and weatherman Andy
Roberts, was the on-site sales representative for LCC, and
worked out of the house at 1300 Willowood Ln., one of the
models. Roberts Point was named for her. In 1973, the
sales promotion brochure read:
"Laurel Cove - naturally beautiful,
naturally convenient, naturally superior in appointment and
features"
"The fine accomplishments of community living achieved in
Laurel Cove are the result of years of study, research, and
building experience. Our builders used high quality
materials, intelligent and artful design, and painstaking
construction methods to make the Laurel Cove home a home you
will be proud to own"
"Laurel Cove is beautiful. Built around atwo-acre wooded
park and playground, Laurel Cove is bordered on two sides by
tranquil, fresh water lakes, and on the third by a branch of
the Lovely Lynnhaven River. Many Laurel Cove homesites are
wooded."
According to a real estate article, a
home on Conrad Lane that sold in 1971 for $33,000 sold again
in 1977 for $55,000, and again in November 1978 for $62,000.
It was quoted in the article:
"Laurel Cove was a tract development
done with care and taste. There is a wide range of
architecture and the models are spaced far enough apart to
avoid monotony. The developer (LCC) also set the houses at
different angles on the lots to good effect. The houses
tend to be spacious. Their appreciation rate, for the most
part, has been generous if not spectacular"
A pig farm and farm house occupied the
site where the Farm Fresh shopping center now stands, and
the grave of one of the deceased landowners is located in
the small patch of woods adjacent to Hardees. The
"original" Laurel Cove was built in three sections: the
first two were from Willowood Lane back to and including
Whisper Drive; the third from Whisper Drive back to the west
end of Laurel Cove Drive/Trant Lake Drive. "Laurelfield"
was added later.
he land Laurel Cove now sits upon was
the 209-acre dairy farm owned by the Arthur E. Conrad
family, who, as mentioned above, sold the land to LCC in
1965. Mr. Conrad created the 25-acre pond, now known as
Lake Conrad. Conrad Lane is also named for him. This area
was a plantation as far back as Colonial times. It
orginally bore the patrician name of Eastwood Manor; then
it became known as the Smith Farm. The original home of
Eastwood Manor is believed to have resembled the historic
Adam Thorough good house in Va. Beach.
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