Echols Farm


Echols Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Show map of Virginia Show map of the United States
Location	Junction of U.S. Route 501 and State Route 130
Nearest city	Glasgow, Virginia
Coordinates	37°37′47″N 79°26′28″W / 37.62972°N 79.44111°W / 37.62972; -79.44111
Area	253 acres (102 ha)
Built	1857 (1857)
NRHP reference No.	98001312^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 30, 1998

Echols Farm is an historic farm property at the junction of United States Route 501 and Virginia State Route 130, just east of Glasgow, Virginia. The more than 250-acre (100 ha) property includes a vernacular frame farmhouse dating to circa 1855 (enlarged about 1914), and a number of 20th-century outbuildings. The property, which abuts the Maury River, also includes surviving traces of the James River and Kanawha Canal, including the remains of two locks.

Edward Echols, who established the farm,^[2] was a lock operator and had other business interests related to the canal.^[3] He also mined iron in the mountain behind the farm, helping to supply the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.^[4]

The canal was used through the 1880s, and the body of Confederate General Thomas Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson passed through the lock on the way to burial in nearby Lexington, Virginia in 1863.^[5]

Echols invested heavily in Confederate war bonds and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1872; but his brother, president of a railroad, bailed him out of financial trouble, keeping the house in the family.^[6]

The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1] It is still owned by the Echols family.

On January 16, 2022, the Farmhouse was destroyed by a fire.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ The News-Advance, July 5, 1998,
^ "NRHP nomination for Echols Farm" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
^ The Washington Post, Virginia Briefs, July 1998
^ News-Gazette, Lexington, Virginia, July 8, 1998, Page 8, Section A
^ Associated Press, July 1998

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types
Lists by state	List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands
Lists by associated state	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau
Other areas	District of Columbia American Legation, Morocco
Related	National Historic Preservation Act Historic Preservation Fund List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places portal Category

This article about a property in Rockbridge County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 20:25

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See also

References