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Locust Dale is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia, United States. [1]

Locust Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [2]

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Locust Hill is a historic home and farm complex located at Locust Dale, Madison County, Virginia. The two-story frame house incorporates an original side-passage- plan section dating to 1834. which was enlarged and given a two-tier Doric order front porch probably about 1849. About 1900 a three-story bathroom tower, a summer kitchen, and a brick greenhouse wing were added. The house includes Federal and Greek Revival style elements. Also on the property are the contributing Willis's School (1897), smokehouse, cistern, dairy, brick lined pit, the site of a water tower, chicken house, Locust Dale store and Post Office (1880s), and Fertilizer House (1934).

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Belle Plaine is a historic farm property at 2488 South United States Route 15 in rural Madison County, Virginia, south of Locust Dale. The main farmhouse is a five-bay two-story frame structure attached to a somewhat older log structure, finished like the main block in wooden clapboards. The log portion is believed to be one of the oldest surviving structures in the county. The property illustrates the changing trends of agricultural use over more than two centuries.

References

  1. "Locust Dale (Madison County, Virginia)". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

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