Shenandoah County Farm Explained

Shenandoah County Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:August 18, 1993[1]
Designated Other1 Number:085-0086
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.9328°N -78.4478°W
Built:, c. 1850
Architecture:Federal
Added:October 29, 1993
Refnum:93001122

Shenandoah County Farm, also known as the Shenandoah County Almshouse and Beckford Parish Glebe Farm, is a historic almshouse and poor farm located near Maurertown, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The almshouse was built in 1829, and is a large, brick Federal style institutional building. It consists of a two-story, five-bay central section flanked by one-story, eight-bay, flanking wings. A nearly identical building is at the Frederick County Poor Farm. A two-story, rear kitchen wing was added about 1850. Also on the property are the contributing stone spring house, a large modern frame barn (1952), a frame meat house (1894), a cemetery, and a portion of an American Civil War encampment site, occupied by Union troops prior to the Battle of Tom's Brook.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

It was destroyed by fire in the early morning of April 13, 2014.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Shenandoah County Farm. Shirley Maxwell . James C. Massey . Mary Kell . amp . April 1993 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  3. Web site: Fire Destroys Historic Alms House at Shenandoah County Farm . www.whsv.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141018180349/http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/Fire-Destroys-Historic-Alms-House-at-Shenandoah-County-Farm-255090411.html . 2014-10-18.