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Virginia City Church

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
05001263

Designated VLR
  
September 14, 2004

Built
  
c. 1895 (1895)

VLR #
  
097-0192

Added to NRHP
  
16 November 2005

Virginia City Church

Location
  
Bull Run Rd., near St. Paul, Virginia

Virginia city church bells


Virginia City Church is a historic church located near St. Paul, Wise County, Virginia. It was built about 1895, and is a small, one-room frame vernacular church. It has a front gable roof and is covered with weatherboard. The rectangular building measures 20 feet by 32 feet. It was built by Virginia City coal camp residents on land donated by the Russell Creek Coal Company. The building also served the community as its first schoolhouse.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Virginia City Church Wikipedia