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Saltville Battlefields Historic District

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Built
  
1864 (1864)

VLR #
  
295-0001

Opened
  
1864

Added to NRHP
  
25 March 2010

NRHP Reference #
  
10000096

Designated VLR
  
December 17, 2009

Area
  
11.08 km²

Saltville Battlefields Historic District

Location
  
SR 91, SR 107, CR 632, Saltville, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals

Saltville Battlefields Historic District is a historic American Civil War battlefield and national historic district located around Saltville, in Smyth County and Washington County, Virginia. The district includes 3 contributing buildings, 31 contributing sites, 4 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object near Saltville. It encompass the core areas of two battles, fought on October 2 and December 20, 1864, known as the Battle of Saltville I and Battle of Saltville II, where Confederate and Union forces contested control of the South’s most important salt production facilities. Notable resources include the sites of salt furnaces, Well Fields, Fort Statham, Lover’s Leap Defenses, Saltville Gap Overlooks, Mill Cliff gun emplacements, Fort Breckinridge, Fort Hatton, Sanders’ House/Williams Site Battlefield/field hospital, William A. Stuart House, and the Elizabeth Cemetery.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

References

Saltville Battlefields Historic District Wikipedia