Castlerun Historic District | |
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| Location | Rte. 682, near Castlewood, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°51′3″N 82°18′52″W / 36.85083°N 82.31444°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1895 |
| NRHP reference No. | 00000024 [1] |
| VLR No. | 083-5017 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 28, 2000 |
| Designated VLR | December 1, 1999 [2] |
Castlerun Historic District is a national historic district located at Castlerun near Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia, United States. The district encompasses three contributing buildings that served the spiritual, educational, and social needs of this isolated far southwest Virginia community. They are the Castlerun School (c. 1895), the Castle Run Missionary Baptist Church (1924), and a frame privy (1926). The one-room school and church are frame, weatherboarded, rectangular buildings with a steep gable roofs. The school closed in 1951. [3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ Anne Stuart Beckett (August 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Castlerun Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map
Categories:
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Buildings and structures in Russell County, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Russell County, Virginia
- Heart of Appalachia, Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs