The Wilderness
USA /
Virginia /
Craigsville /
Virginia Route 629, 13954
World
/ USA
/ Virginia
/ Craigsville
house, estate (manor / mansion land), NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, Georgian (architecture), historic district
Established alongside a main road connecting the springs resorts of Bath County with the Shenandoah Valley, The Wilderness is a large estate in the county’s northeastern mountains. Farmer and politician Samuel Blackburn developed The Wilderness during the early 19th century. At the center of the property is a two-story Georgian-style brick residence probably built about 1816. The house is distinguished by its pedimented front pavilion, pilaster corners, and original interior finishes including mantels of unusual form and detail. Behind the house is a contemporaneous brick carriage house—no doubt a rare refinement in early Bath County—and nearby is the stone foundation of a detached kitchen. Blackburn, the author of anti-dueling legislation and a noted orator, figured in period descriptions of the farm. The estate was later owned by the Frazier family, the proprietors of important springs resorts including Bath Alum Springs and Rockbridge Alum Springs. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries The Wilderness operated as a stock farm concentrating on large herds of sheep and cattle.
--Virginia Department of Historic Resources
NRHP #100001494
--Virginia Department of Historic Resources
NRHP #100001494
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wilderness_(Deerfield,_Virginia)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°8'1"N 79°29'14"W
- Rock Cliff 83 km
- Rocklands 112 km
- Montpelier, Home of James and Dolley Madison 114 km
- Llangollen 171 km
- Hickory Hill 184 km
- Blandfield 221 km
- Flowerdew Hundred Plantation and Museum 228 km
- Les Wexner Residence 360 km
- Biltmore Estate 398 km
- A. H. Stephens State Historic Park 594 km
- Fort Lewis 12 km
- Gum Tree Mountain 17 km
- Bath County, Virginia 24 km
- Warm Springs -- West Warm Springs Historic District 29 km
- Highland County, Virginia 29 km
- Bath County Pumped Storage project 30 km
- Augusta County, Virginia 31 km
- Rockbridge County, Virginia 36 km
- Pocahontas County, West Virginia 52 km
- Monongahela National Forest 58 km