Rappahannock County

Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States
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Ben Venue (Washington, Virginia) (Q15198368)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ben Venue is a historic home and farm located near Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The main house was built between 1844 and 1846, and is a three-story, five bay, brick dwelling with a side gable roof and parapets. It features a one-story porch that covers the central three bays; it has four Doric order columns supporting a bracketed entablature. The property also includes three brick slave cabins, the original Fletcher homestead, kitchen, smokehouse, privy, and a formal garden.

NRHP reference number: 79003075

John W. Miller House (Q15229688)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

John W. Miller House is a historic home located near Boston, in Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1842–1843, and is a two-story, I-house, with a central-passage plan and interior end chimneys. It was adorned in 1880–1881, with Italianate features, including an elaborate two-story front porch. The property also includes the contributing kitchen / quarters, ice house, barn, and Miller family cemetery.

NRHP reference number: 90002010

Copper Fox Distillery (Q5168729)
item type: distillery
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Copper Fox Distillery is a distillery that produces American whiskey in Sperryville, Virginia and Williamsburg, VA. The owner and operator of Copper Fox Distillery is Rick Wasmund.

website: https://www.copperfoxdistillery.com

Calvert Mill/Washington Mill (Q5024273)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Calvert Mill/Washington Mill, also known as the Old Mill, is an historic water-powered grinding mill located on Old Mill Road in Washington, Virginia. Its water source is the Rush River. The Calvert name comes from George Calvert, Jr., a local landowner, who owned it from 1779 to 1800. The oldest part of the present mill dates from this period. Later additions were made in 1840 and 1860. It was bought in 1979 by Peter Kramer, who planned to restore it. As of 2008, though, it stood unused and in disrepair.

NRHP reference number: 82004583

Mount Salem Baptist Meetinghouse (Q15260053)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mount Salem Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as Mount Salem Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist meeting house located near Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1850–1851, and is a one-story, stuccoed stone building. It measures 40 feet by 50 feet and is topped by a gable roof. The church was restored and put into active service in 1977, after closure in 1942.

NRHP reference number: 79003076

Chester Gap (Q5093561)
item type: mountain pass
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Chester Gap, sometimes referred to as Happy Creek Gap for the creek that runs down its western slope, is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border of Rappahannock County, Fauquier County and Warren County in Virginia. The gap is traversed by U.S. Route 522. The Appalachian trail also passes across the gap, with a trailhead at the gap.

Washington Historic District (Washington, Virginia) (Q16902941)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

NRHP reference number: 75002033

Sunnyside (Q16900922)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sunnyside, also known as Sunnyside Farms, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures. The main house was constructed in four distinct building phases from about 1785 to 1996. The oldest section is a two-story single-pile log structure with a hall-parlor plan, with a 1 1/2-story stone kitchen added about 1800. In addition to the main house, the remaining contributing resources include five dwellings (one of which is a stone slave quarters), two smokehouses, a root cellar, a chicken coop, a spring house, two cemeteries, a silo, a workshop, a stone foundation for a demolished house, stone walls, and a shed. The farm is the location of the first commercial apple orchard in Rappahannock County, Virginia, established in 1873.

NRHP reference number: 04001274

Washington School (Q111942024)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Washington Graded School is a historic school located in Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was constructed around 1923 as a two-teacher school. The building is a "Rosenwald School". Rosenwald schools refer to those buildings constructed for the education of African-American students, with financial support and plans provided by the Rosenwald Fund. Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, along with Booker T. Washington, the principal of Tuskegee Institute, worked with Black communities across the south to build more than 5,000 schools for Black children. Built in 79 localities in Virginia, about half shared the Washington School two-teacher design. The Washington School, which closed in 1963, retains the early look and feel of its rural setting, and exhibits historic integrity of design, workmanship, and materials.

Marys Rock Tunnel (Q28230503)
item type: road tunnel
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Marys Rock Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Located at mile marker 32.2 on Skyline Drive, the scenic byway that traverses the length of Shenandoah National Park, it is the only vehicular tunnel in the park. Constructed in 1932 by workers employed with the Civilian Conservation Corps, the tunnel workers took three months to drill and blast through the east slopes of Mary's Rock (3,514 ft (1,071 m)). The two lane tunnel is 670 ft (200 m) long and only 12 ft 8 in (3.86 m) high, so recreational vehicles and taller trucks need to check their height restrictions before traveling through it.

Rappahannock Drive-In (Q43301211)
item type: movie theater / drive-in theater / former building or structure

Street address: 13547 Lee Highway, Washington, VA 22747 (from Wikidata)

Montpelier (Sperryville, Virginia) (Q15255838)
item type: plantation
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Montpelier is a historic plantation house located near Sperryville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1750, and is a two-story, 11 bay, stuccoed stone and brick dwelling with a side gable roof. It consists of a five-bay main block with north and south three bay wings. It features a two-story verandah stretching the entire length of the house with eight large provincial Tuscan order columns. The property also includes the contributing smokehouse, storage house, and a frame cabin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

NRHP reference number: 73002052

George L. Carder House (Q15221536)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

George L. Carder House, also known as Boxwood Hill, is a historic home located at Castleton, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built about 1833, and is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling on a limestone foundation. It features a pair of front entrances and an original kitchen built into the cellar. The property also includes a contributing one-room log house, log shed, and wood-framed barn.

NRHP reference number: 04000715

Caledonia Farm (Q15206842)
item type: cemetery / farm
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Caledonia Farm, also known as Fountain Hall, is a historic home located at Flint Hill, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built about 1812, and is a two-story, three bay, Federal style stone dwelling. The original stone kitchen was connected to the north end of the house in the 1960s. The property also includes the contributing Dearing family cemetery.

NRHP reference number: 90001996

Meadow Grove Farm (Q15252581)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Meadow Grove Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It encompasses 13 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites. The main house was constructed in four distinct building phases from about 1820 to 1965. The oldest section is a 1 1/2-story log structure, with a two-story Greek Revival style main block added about 1860. A two-story brick addition, built in 1965, replaced a two-story wing added in 1881. In addition to the main house the remaining contributing resources include a tenant house/slave quarters, a schoolhouse, a summer kitchen, a meat house, a machine shed, a blacksmith shop, a barn, a chicken coop, a chicken house, two granaries, and a corn crib; a cemetery, an icehouse ruin, two former sites of the present schoolhouse, and the original site of the log granary.

NRHP reference number: 06000803

Locust Grove/R.E. Luttrell Farmstead (Q16894285)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Locust Grove/R.E. Luttrell Farmstead is a historic farmstead at 24 Bunree Lane in Amissville, Virginia. The main house of the 19-acre (7.7 ha) farm is an I-house plan timber frame structure built c. 1815. It was extended in the 19th century with a two-story addition to the side, and again in 1960 with a modern two story addition to the rear. The core of the house has retained much of its interior decoration and woodwork. The farmstead includes a number of outbuildings, including a tenant house dating to the turn of the 20th century, and c. 1920 stallion barn, chicken house, and meat house. A c. 1830s barn collapsed due to a heavy snow load in 2011. The original owner of the farmstead is not known; its longest tenure of ownership was by the interrelated Corbin, Bywaters, Nelson, Luttrell, and Amiss families.

NRHP reference number: 13000343

Ben Venue Rural Historic District (Q24191769)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Ben Venue Rural Historic District encompasses a large rural historic landscape in northeastern Rappahannock County, Virginia. It is centered on Ben Venue Road, between United States Route 211 in the south and the village of Flint Hill in the north, and encompasses more than 2,600 acres (1,100 ha) of rural landscape, affording fine panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west. This area was developed agriculturally beginning in the mid-18th century by wealthy Virginia families, around what was one of the region's first turnpikes, and has maintained its rural character in the intervening centuries. Prominent properties in the district include the 1844 Ben Venue estate and the 1773 Battle Run Primitive Baptist Church.

NRHP reference number: 15001042

Flint Hill (Q5459517)
item type: census-designated place
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Flint Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 209. It is located on Route 522, approximately 2 miles to the east of the border of the Shenandoah National Park.

USGS GNIS ID: 2629022, 1494930

Scrabble School (Q15275738)
item type: school building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Scrabble School is a historic Rosenwald school for African-American children located near Castleton, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1921–1922, and is a one-story, wood-frame building clad in rough-cast stucco siding. The building sits on a poured concrete foundation. It features overhanging eaves, a wood cornice, exposed rafter tails, and decorative corner brackets in the American Craftsman style. Also on the property are the contributing concrete block coal house/shed (c. 1950) and septic tanks / privy sites (c. 1922). The school was permanently closed in 1968.

NRHP reference number: 07001143