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Archive for the ‘History & Culture’ Category
History & Culture sub categories : Cemeteries, Churches, Country Stores, Historic Farms, Historical Markers, Landscape Heritage, Mills, Plantations, Schools, Stories, Vernacular Architecture and Villages
Don Faulkner’s Wintergreen history
There is so much more unwritten than written history of that (wonderful) County of Nelson in Virginia and of the particularly rare and beautiful country of WINTERGREEN which is the keystone of the Rockfish Valley and its surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains (in the extreme northeastern portion of the country). This relatively brief history will be [...]
Churches on Loop
Elk Hill Baptist Church
Bethlehem Church
Mount Pleasant Church
Zion Hill Church
Address: 116 Zion Hill Road,
Roseland, VA 22967
Phone: 434-277-9418
Massies Mill Presbyterian Church
Address: 2178 Crabtree Falls Highway
Massies Mill, Va 22954
Phone: 434-277-5161
Haines Chapel
Mountain Top Church
Oak Hill Baptist Church
Address: 382 Level Green Road
Massies Milll, VA 22954
Phone:434-277-8582
Mt Paran Baptist Church
(on a spur)
Harmony Presbyterian Church
Fork Mountain Church
(on a [...]
Pharsalia
If you’re looking for fresh local flowers, heirloom vegetables, or a venue for your special event that is equally special, this is the place. Pharsalia is a working antebellum plantation with a picturesque setting among the orchards and fields of Nelson County. In the spirit of hospitality that has been a hallmark for nearly two [...]
Vernacular Architecture
The majority of early Nelson buildings were small one-room structures; memoirs and documents from this area substantiate this theory. The Shenandoah Valley provided different influences. Trading ties with areas west of the Blue Ridge brought Nelson County residents in contact with the Scotch-Irish and German artisans who demonstrated a willingness to experiment with form and [...]
Wintergreen Plantation
Wintergreen stands in Southern Rockfish Valley, on the west side of the south fork of the Rockfish River. Hawes N. Coleman purchased the land on which he later built Wintergreen in April of 1789. Coleman acquired land in the Valley until he had accumulated more than 1000 acres by 1807. Wintergreen became the first house [...]
Blue Rock
Major Thomas Massie built Blue Rock for his son Thomas Jr. in 1816. The house was built in the reversed fashion to Pharsalia, having one and a half story in the front with dormers, and the back wing of one story.
Blue Rock burned in 1886, surviving only Dr. Massie’s office and chimney, built apart from [...]
Pharsalia
Pharsalia is a complex of antebellum plantation buildings located near the village of Massie’s Mill in Nelson County, Virginia. The complex is at the base of Priest Mountain on a knoll overlooking the Tye River Valley and was part of the plantation established by William Massie in 1814. The Federal style, frame manor house was [...]
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