Reynolds Property

 house, abandoned / shut down, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic district

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The Reynolds Property represents the early industrial history of Botetort County when construction of the James River and Kanawha Canal provided the impetus for a hydraulic cement industry. The 1840s appear to have been years of growth for the region’s lime industry, which continues to be an important part of the county’s economy. Named for its one-time owner and mid-19th-century lime-maker, Greenville Reynolds, the roughly 150-acre property features a whitewashed stone house dating to around 1800, a long-abandoned limestone quarry complex including a mound that may be a limekiln ruin, a barn, and miscellaneous domestic and agricultural outbuildings. Quarrying ceased on the property in 1936.

--Virginia Department of Historic Resources

NRHP #16000795