Elijah Murdock Farm

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Elijah Murdock Farm
Nearest cityOff VA 643, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of US 460, near Yellow Sulphur, Virginia
Arealess than one acre
Architectural styleHall-parlor plan
MPS Montgomery County MPS
NRHP reference # 89001882 [1]
VLR #060-0547
Significant dates
Added to NRHP1989
Designated VLR [2]
Removed from NRHPMarch 19, 2001

Elijah Murdock Farm was a historic home located near Yellow Sulphur, Montgomery County, Virginia. The main dwelling was a two-story, three-bay, hall-parlor-plan dwelling with a two-story log and frame ell. Also on the property was a contributing washhouse of weatherboarded frame construction, a double-crib log corn crib, a board-and-batten-sided frame outbuilding, and the site of a spring house. [3]

Yellow Sulphur, Virginia Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States

Yellow Sulphur is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States. Yellow Sulphur is located along State Route 643 4.1 miles (6.6 km) south-southeast of Blacksburg.

Montgomery County, Virginia U.S. county in Virginia

Montgomery County is a county located in the Valley and Ridge area of the U.S. state of Virginia. As population in the area increased, Montgomery County was formed in 1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt County. As of the 2010 census, the population was 94,392. Its county seat is Christiansburg.

Corn crib

A corn crib or corncrib is a type of granary used to dry and store corn. It may also be known as a cornhouse or corn house.

The farmstead was listed on the National Register partly for its architecture and also for the site's archeological potential: it was deemed "an excellent example of a relatively undisturbed historic farmstead" with likely valuable deposits relating to occupation and use of the farmstead in the 1800s. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property.

The house has been demolished.

The site was delisted from the National Register in 2001. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 Gibson Worsham (June 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Elijah Murdock Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo