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Spring Valley Rural Historic District

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Architectural style
  
log house, I-house

VLR #
  
038-5269

Area
  
17.08 km²

NRHP Reference #
  
11000062

Designated VLR
  
December 16, 2010

Added to NRHP
  
1 March 2011

Spring Valley Rural Historic District

Location
  
Route 805; Route 604; Route 651 in the Spring Valley community, near Fries, Virginia

Spring Valley Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Fries, Grayson County, Virginia. The district encompasses 184 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in the wooded and agricultural northeastern corner of Grayson County. It includes mostly frame or log structures, with a few brick buildings, and several well-preserved examples of early-19th century log dwellings still in use. Notable buildings include the Knob Fork Primitive Baptist Church (c. 1800), William Bourne House “Walnut Hill” (c. 1790), Austin King House (c. 1847), Tomlinson House (c. 1851), O’Donnell Place (c. 1860), Ephraim Boyer House (c. 1870), John Fielder Farmhouse (c. 1850, c. 1870), Ebenezer Methodist Church and Cemetery (c. 1884), Spring Valley Academy (c. 1880), Glenn Cornett House (1904), and Phipps Bourne Farmstead (1909). Located in the district is the separately listed Stephen G. Bourne House.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Spring Valley Rural Historic District Wikipedia


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