Back Creek Farm
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Back Creek Farm | |
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| Location | NW side of VA 617, near Dublin, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°10′00″N 80°42′44″W / 37.16667°N 80.71222°WCoordinates: 37°10′00″N 80°42′44″W / 37.16667°N 80.71222°W |
| Area | 756 acres (306 ha) |
| Architectural style | Early Republic |
| NRHP Reference # | 75002032[1] |
| VLR # | 077-0002 |
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| 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, Joseph Cloyd (1742-1833), also built the nearby New Dublin Presbyterian Church. 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]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ 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
