Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District
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Historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
"Covering approximately 16,200 acres in western Albemarle County and a small corner of Nelson and southeastern Augusta counties, the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District was first settled by Europeans with the arrival of 18th-century Scots-Irish immigrants from the Shenandoah Valley. Early settlement developed along wagon roads and turnpikes that passed through gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains. During the second-quarter of the 19th century, French-born military engineer Claudius Crozet, known as the “Pathfinder of the Blue Ridge,” directed the building of four railroad tunnels through the mountains, including one that was the longest in the U.S. when it opened in 1858. The advent of rail transport dramatically boosted agriculture and trade in the Greenwood-Afton district, giving rise to one of Virginia’s most successful early commercial orchard industries. Today the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District is dominated by large farmsteads, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and early-20th-century estates. It also includes the mid-19th-century villages of Greenwood Depot and Afton, as well as the early-20th-century historically African American communities of New Town and Free Town. Greenwood’s legacy as a seasonal playground for the wealthy is reflected in the area’s large number of estates and “Country Houses” designed by prominent architects."
--Virginia Department of Historic Resources
"Covering approximately 16,200 acres in western Albemarle County and a small corner of Nelson and southeastern Augusta counties, the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District was first settled by Europeans with the arrival of 18th-century Scots-Irish immigrants from the Shenandoah Valley. Early settlement developed along wagon roads and turnpikes that passed through gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains. During the second-quarter of the 19th century, French-born military engineer Claudius Crozet, known as the “Pathfinder of the Blue Ridge,” directed the building of four railroad tunnels through the mountains, including one that was the longest in the U.S. when it opened in 1858. The advent of rail transport dramatically boosted agriculture and trade in the Greenwood-Afton district, giving rise to one of Virginia’s most successful early commercial orchard industries. Today the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District is dominated by large farmsteads, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and early-20th-century estates. It also includes the mid-19th-century villages of Greenwood Depot and Afton, as well as the early-20th-century historically African American communities of New Town and Free Town. Greenwood’s legacy as a seasonal playground for the wealthy is reflected in the area’s large number of estates and “Country Houses” designed by prominent architects."
--Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood-Afton_Rural_Historic_District
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°2'36"N 78°48'25"W
- Sugar Loaf Farm 34 km
- Riverside Farm 36 km
- Kyle's Mill House 37 km
- William Mackey House 53 km
- The Wilderness 62 km
- Fort Lewis 75 km
- Warm Springs -- West Warm Springs Historic District 89 km
- The Omni Homestead Resort 90 km
- Douthat State Park 92 km
- Clifton Forge Residential Historic District 93 km
- Fishersville, Virginia 15 km
- Trayfoot Mountain 20 km
- Stuarts Draft, Virginia 20 km
- Albemarle County, Virginia 25 km
- Weyers Cave, Virginia 28 km
- Nelson County, Virginia 29 km
- Quarry : Limestone, Crushed Stone 32 km
- Augusta County, Virginia 33 km
- Rockingham County, Virginia 54 km
- Shenandoah National Park 58 km