Back Creek Farm

Back Creek Farm
Distant view from State Route 100 to the east
Location NW side of VA 617, near Dublin, Virginia
Coordinates 37°10′00″N 80°42′44″W / 37.16667°N 80.71222°W / 37.16667; -80.71222Coordinates: 37°10′00″N 80°42′44″W / 37.16667°N 80.71222°W / 37.16667; -80.71222
Area 756 acres (306 ha)
Architectural style Early Republic
NRHP reference # 75002032[1]
VLR # 077-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 21, 1975
Designated VLR February 18, 1975[2]

Back Creek Farm is a historic home located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It dates to the late-18th century, and is a two-story, five bay, brick I-house with a side gable roof. It has a two-story rear ell, sits on a rubble limestone basement, and has interior end chimneys with corbelled caps. The front facade features a pedimented tetrastyle Ionic order porch with an elegant frontispiece doorway with stop-fluted Corinthian order pilasters. Its builder was Joseph Cloyd (1742-1833). During the American Civil War, on May 9, 1864, the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain was fought on the property. The house served that day as a hospital and as headquarters for the Union General George Crook, under whose command were Captains Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.[3]

North of the house is the barn,[3]:6 a stone structure whose damage from Union artillery is still evident.[4] This Pennsylvania barn is built of limestone of different sorts: many of the walls are rubble, while set above the basement windows are small arches of carefully prepared stonework.[3]:6

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (February 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Back Creek Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. ↑ Clauson-Wicker, Su, for the Roanoke Times. "Mary Catherine Stout: Cloyd's Mountain History Keeper". News and Advance 2017-05-30, C6.
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