Beach Station (Chesterfield, Virginia)

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Beach Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
George Perdue House at Beach Station Historic District, October 2012
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Location	11410 & 11400 Beach Rd., Chesterfield, Virginia
Coordinates	37°21′20″N 77°35′42″W / 37.35556°N 77.59500°W / 37.35556; -77.59500Coordinates: 37°21′20″N 77°35′42″W / 37.35556°N 77.59500°W / 37.35556; -77.59500
Area	0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built	c. 1890 (1890)
Built by	Perdue, Nathaniel B.; Perdue, George Porter
NRHP Reference #	08000067^[1]
VLR #	020-5386
Added to NRHP	February 22, 2008
Designated VLR	December 5, 2007^[2]

Beach Station a national historic district located near Chesterfield, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The district includes six contributing buildings and one contributing site in the Village of Beach. They were all constructed about 1890 and are two single-family dwellings, a post office, a railway depot, an outbuilding, two railroad shanties, and the ruins of the former general store. Beach Station was accessible from the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad. Leasing arrangements had been made with the Brighthope Railway company which was sold to become the Farmville and Powhatan.^[3] The district represents an unusual collection of late-nineteenth-century buildings in their historic surroundings.^[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.^[1]

Perdue-Mitchell House, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia
Railroad Depot, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia. This was a railroad station on the Bright Hope Railroad.

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.
↑ "Historic Beach Station National Register of Historic Places Virginia Historic Landmark Chesterfield County Historic Landmark" (PDF). The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia. July 2014.
↑ Nancy W. Kraus (August 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Beach Station" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo

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