NRHP Reference # 03000564 Designated VLR March 19, 2003 Year built 1908 | VLR # 131-5325 Area 5.115 km² Added to NRHP 29 May 2007 | |
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Location Roughly bounded by Great Dismal Swamp & I 64, Chesapeake, Virginia Architect Pavlovetz, Michale; Virginia State Board of Education Architectural style Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, et al. | ||
Sunray Agricultural Historic District is a national historic district located at Chesapeake, Virginia. The district encompasses 188 contributing buildings, 90 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the early 20th-century immigrant farming community of Sunray. It includes early 20th century vernacular farmhouses, agricultural buildings, Sunray School (1922), and St. Mary’s Catholic Church (1915-1916). The district also includes a tidal ditch system, the abandoned Virginian Railroad Tracks (1909), and agricultural fields laid out with the platting of 1908.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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