Maiden Spring Explained

Maiden Spring
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 15, 1994[1]
Designated Other1 Number:092-0002
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:37.03°N -81.6836°W
Built:, 1838
Architecture:Central-passage plan
Added:August 16, 1994
Refnum:94000987

Maiden Spring is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. The main house consists of a large two-story, five-bay, frame, central-passage-plan dwelling with an earlier frame dwelling (c. 1772), incorporated as an ell. Also on the property are the contributing meat house, slave house, summer kitchen, horse barn, the stock barn, the hen house, the granary / corn crib, the source of Maiden Spring, the cemetery, and the schoolhouse. It was the home of 19th-century congressman, magistrate and judge Rees Bowen (1809–1879) and his son, Henry (1841-1915), also a congressman. During the American Civil War, Confederate Army troops camped on the Maiden Spring Farm.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Maiden Spring. Gibson Worsham . February 1994. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo