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Smithland Farm

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Built
  
1869

Opened
  
1869

Added to NRHP
  
17 October 2003

NRHP Reference #
  
03001061

Area
  
3.237 kmĀ²

Smithland Farm

Location
  
U.S. Route 35 between Lower Nine Mile Rd. and Lower Five Mile Rd., near Henderson, West Virginia

Architectural styles
  
Colonial Revival architecture, Greek Revival architecture

Smithland Farm, also known as the General John McCausland Memorial Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Henderson, Mason County, West Virginia. The main house is two-story frame structure constructed in 1869. The house a side-gabled, two-story, weatherboarded frame structure with a two-story frame wing. The property includes a contributing corncrib (c. 1950), silo (c. 1930), pole barn (c. 1930s), barn (early 1900s), main barn (early 1900s), block school (c. 1915-1920), and Poffenbarger Cemetery (late 1900s). It was for many years part of a larger farm owned by Confederate General John McCausland. The West Virginia Department of Agriculture acquired the farm in 1981.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Smithland Farm Wikipedia