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Castlerun Historic District

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Area
  
less than one acre

VLR #
  
083-5017

Year built
  
1895

NRHP Reference #
  
00000024

Designated VLR
  
December 1, 1999

Added to NRHP
  
28 January 2000

Castlerun Historic District

Location
  
Rte. 682, near Castlewood, Virginia

Castlerun Historic District is a national historic district located at Castlerun near Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia. The district encompasses three contributing buildings that served the spiritual, educational, and social needs of this isolated far southwest Virginia community. They are the Castlerun School (c. 1895), the Castle Run Missionary Baptist Church (1924), and a frame privy (1926). The one-room school and church are frame, weatherboarded, rectangular buildings with a steep gable roofs. The school closed in 1951.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Castlerun Historic District Wikipedia