Presentation at the public meeting for the proposed South Rockfish Rural Historic District public meeting, May 2016.

1. South Rockfish Valley Rural
Historic District

2. Thank you

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

8. Areas of Significance
Agriculture, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance
1737-1966
248 Resources
131 Contributing
1,620 acres
South Fork Rockfish River/ SR 151
Average property size 11 acres

9. Viewsheds/landscape
Largely domestic with smaller parcels near
community centers
Previously listed Wintergreen Country Store, Elk
Hill, River Bluff, Three Chimneys/Major Woods’
House

10. Fork Farm ca. 1740

11. Rockfish Presbyterian Church ca.
1853, parish 1746

12. River Bluff 1785,
1810

13. Glenthorne ca. 1767

14. Three Chimneys ca.1795

15. Elk Hill ca. 1800

16. Wintergreen ca. 1802

17. Former Slave Dwelling Castle Hill

18. Elk Hill Baptist Church 1800

19. Apple Packing Shed

20. 2950 Rockfish Valley Highway ca. 1878

21. 5766 Rockfish Valley Highway, ca. 1925

22. Wintergreen Colored School 1932

23. Rockfish Valley School, 1939

24. 2754 Rockfish Valley Highway, ca. 1934

25. 4207 Adial Road 1958

31. Thank you