South Rockfish Valley Rural Historic District

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The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation….part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.

A. That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history

C. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction

A- a well-preserved rural landscape with a continuous tradition of farming in a circumscribed geographic area since the first half of the eighteenth century. The agricultural history of this exceptionally fertile valley chronicles the development of tobacco cultivation for international export from the eighteenth through late nineteenth century, the transition to a thriving apple orchard industry from the 1880s through early 1940s, and the present mix of cattle farming and experimentation with viticulture and cider orchards.

C-a collection of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century century architecture representing a variety of vernacular and more formal styles. Of particular interest is the collection of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century farmhouses with high integrity and an individually listed general store that anchors the historic crossroads community of Wintergreen

Areas of SignificanceAgriculture, Architecture, Commerce

Period of Significance1737-1966

248 Resources131 Contributing1,620 acresSouth Fork Rockfish River/ SR 151Average property size 11 acres

Viewsheds/landscapeLargely domestic with smaller parcels near

community centersPreviously listed Wintergreen Country Store, Elk

Hill, River Bluff, Three Chimneys/Major Woods’ House

Fork Farm ca. 1740

Rockfish Presbyterian Church ca. 1853, parish 1746

River Bluff 1785, 1810

Glenthorne ca. 1767

Three Chimneys ca.1795

Elk Hill ca. 1800

Wintergreen ca. 1802

Former Slave Dwelling Castle Hill

Elk Hill Baptist Church 1800

Apple Packing Shed

2950 Rockfish Valley Highway ca. 1878

5766 Rockfish Valley Highway, ca. 1925

Wintergreen Colored School 1932

Rockfish Valley School, 1939

2754 Rockfish Valley Highway, ca. 1934

4207 Adial Road 1958

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