Madison County

Madison County, Virginia, United States
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38 items

Hartland College (Q5674718)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)
Woodbourne (Madison, Virginia) (Q14713554)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Woodbourne is a historic home and farm located at Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The house was built between about 1805 and 1814, and is a two-story, gable-roofed brick structure. It has a front porch, a two-story frame wing attached to either gable end, and a one-story rear frame wing. Adjacent to the house is the two-story, old kitchen building. Also on the property are the contributing ruins of the foundation of the old barn.

NRHP reference number: 99000727

Hartland Institute (Q5674732)
item type: religious organization / Kirchliche Hochschule / educational organization
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

website: http://www.hartland.edu/

Oldrag (Q7085708)
item type: unincorporated community
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Old Rag (sometimes written Oldrag) was an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Virginia, on Old Rag Mountain. Originally known as Weakley Valley, Old Rag was inhabited by white people in the 1770s. By 1900, Old Rag had a post office, a school, two churches and two stores, and a cemetery.

USGS GNIS ID: 1848400

James City Historic District (Q14712617)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

James City Historic District is a national historic district located near Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings in the rural hamlet of James City. They consist of late-18th-, early-to-late 19th-, and early-20th century commercial, residential, and agricultural buildings. The commercial buildings include two stores, a tavern and a blacksmith shop.

NRHP reference number: 01000691

Brampton (Orange, Virginia) (Q14712065)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Brampton, also known as Buena Vista Farm, is a historic home located near Orange, in Madison County, Virginia. It was built about 1846, as a two-bay, side passage plan with a flat roof, two-story portico, and a small wing. It is a temple-form Greek Revival-style residence. A rear addition was built about 1900, and the front portico was redesigned with a pedimented form. Also on the property are the contributing brick kitchen, smokehouse, and dairy.

NRHP reference number: 85003350

Fishers Gap (Q5454939)
item type: mountain pass
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fishers Gap is a wind gap of the Blue Ridge Mountains located on the border of Madison County and Page County in Virginia in the Shenandoah National Park. Both Skyline Drive and the Appalachian Trail pass across the gap.

USGS GNIS ID: 1466607

The Residence (Q14713326)
item type: villa
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Residence, also known as Woodberry, is a historic home located on the grounds of Woodberry Forest School at Woodberry Forest, Madison County, Virginia. It was built in 1793, reputedly after the plans of Thomas Jefferson. In 1884, the house was extensively enlarged and altered. It is a 1+12-story, wood frame, Federal-style residence. The front facade features a pedimented Tuscan order portico. The house is covered with weatherboarding and is topped by its original hipped roof. Also on the property is the contributing smokehouse. The house was built for William Madison, brother of President James Madison.

NRHP reference number: 79003052

Madison County Courthouse Historic District (Q14712768)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Madison County Courthouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The district encompasses 66 contributing buildings in the county seat of Madison. In addition to the separately listed Madison County Courthouse, there are a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from the early 19th to the 20th century. Notable buildings include the County Clerk's Office (1832), the Washington Tavern or Eagle House (ca. 1832), the Arcade (1830s), Piedmont Episcopal Church (1832-1834), the Madison Presbyterian and Methodist churches (1852-1853), Hunton House Hotel (1804, 1849), and the Linn Banks Masonic Lodge (1855).

NRHP reference number: 84003549

The Homeplace (Q14713309)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Homeplace is a historic home and farm complex located at Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The original house was built about 1830, and is a gable-roofed hall-and- parlor building with a rear shed addition, built of frame over a stone basement. It was extensively enlarged about 1875 by the addition of a two-story wing built on an I-house plan. Also on the property are the contributing barn, well house, sun pit (greenhouse), bunkhouse for farm workers, meathouse, and a building which once housed the furniture factory operated by the Clore family.

NRHP reference number: 99000959

Hoffman Round Barn (Q14712548)
item type: round barn / historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Hoffman Round Barn, also known as Gentry Round Barn, is a historic round barn and national historic district located near Wolftown, Madison County, Virginia. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site and one other contributing structure. The barn was built in 1913. It is a 1+12-story, wood frame barn with 12 sides and a 12-sided standing-seam metal, mansard-like roof. A wooden center silo protrudes several feet above the level of the main roof, has a gable-roofed dormer on the east side, and is capped by a metal roof, resembling a cupola. Associated with the barn are the contributing Hoffman farmhouse and family cemetery.

NRHP reference number: 09000242

Greenway (Madison Mills, Virginia) (Q14712399)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Greenway, also known as Prospect Hill, is a historic home and farm complex located at Madison Mills, Madison County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1780, and is a 1+12-story, heavy timber-frame structure, on a hall-and-parlor plan. A shed-roofed rear addition was added shortly before 1800. A rear wing was added in the early-20th century and enlarged in 1986. Also on the property are the contributing wood frame dairy / maids house; brick dairy / smokehouse; pumphouse (c. 1920); garage, corncrib, and the Madison/Taliaferro family cemetery. Greenway was built by Francis Madison, brother of President James Madison.

NRHP reference number: 88002385

Big Meadows (Q4906002)
item type: meadow
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Big Meadows is a recreational area of the Shenandoah National Park in Madison County and Page County, in the US state of Virginia. The meadow is located on the Skyline Drive at Milepost 51 and contains the park's Harry F. Byrd Visitor Center, a lodge, camp store, and camping area. Several hiking trails can be accessed from Big Meadows, including the Mill Prong Trail which leads to Rapidan Camp on the Rapidan River, the fishing retreat of President Herbert Hoover from 1929–1933, which is now restored to its 1930s configuration.

Locust Hill (Locust Dale, Virginia) (Q14712731)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Locust Hill is a historic home and farm complex located at Locust Dale, Madison County, Virginia. The two-story frame house incorporates an original side-passage- plan section dating to 1834. which was enlarged and given a two-tier Doric order front porch probably about 1849. About 1900 a three-story bathroom tower, a summer kitchen, and a brick greenhouse wing were added. The house includes Federal and Greek Revival style elements. Also on the property are the contributing Willis's School (1897), smokehouse, cistern, dairy, brick lined pit, the site of a water tower, chicken house, Locust Dale store and Post Office (1880s), and Fertilizer House (1934).

NRHP reference number: 02000590

Graves Mill (Q14712384)
item type: gristmill
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Graves Mill, also known as Jones Mill and Beech Grove Mill, is a historic grist mill complex located near Wolftown, Madison County, Virginia. The complex includes a three-story, heavy timber frame gristmill; a two-story, log, frame, and weatherboard miller's house; and a one-story heavy timber frame barn. The gristmill was built about 1798, probably on the foundation of an earlier gristmill built about 1745. It was owned and operated by members of the Thomas Graves family for more than a century.

NRHP reference number: 06000754

Gentle Site (Q5533687)
item type: archaeological site
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Gentle Site (44-MD-112) is an archaeological site in Shenandoah National Park, in Madison County, Virginia, United States.

NRHP reference number: 85003174

Big Meadows Site (Q4906005)
item type: archaeological site
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Big Meadows Site is an archaeological site on the National Register of Historic Places near Luray, Virginia. It is located in Shenandoah National Park.

NRHP reference number: 85003172

Cliff Kill Site (Q5132655)
item type: archaeological site
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Cliff Kill Site (44-MD-138) is an archaeological site in Shenandoah National Park, in Madison County, Virginia, United States. Its name derives from the discoverers' supposition that it was originally used as a buffalo jump.

NRHP reference number: 85003153

Belle Plaine (Q46996792)
item type: farm
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Belle Plaine is a historic farm property at 2488 South United States Route 15 in rural Madison County, Virginia, south of Locust Dale. The main farmhouse is a five-bay two-story frame structure attached to a somewhat older log structure, finished like the main block in wooden clapboards. The log portion is believed to be one of the oldest surviving structures in the county. The property illustrates the changing trends of agricultural use over more than two centuries.

Street address: 2488 South James Madison Highway (from Wikidata)

NRHP reference number: 16000532