Sunnydale Farm Explained

Sunnydale Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:March 17, 2011[1]
Designated Other1 Number:097-0403
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:37.1544°N -82.5578°W
Architecture:Craftsman / bungalow
Added:June 8, 2011
Refnum:11000352[2]

Sunnydale Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Pound, Wise County, Virginia. The complex includes contributing and noncontributing buildings, structures, and sites dating from the 19th century or before to the 1960s. The Sunnydale Farm House, was built about 1919, and is a 1 1/2-story, frame Craftsman bungalow with vinyl and novelty weatherboard siding. Also on the property are the contributing stone well, a ruinous stone and frame root cellar, a frame chicken house, a frame blacksmith shop with a wagon and tractor, and a family cemetery. Other contributing resources are the sites of the Millard cabin and associated root cellar, coal mine openings, and the site of a coal mine tipple and bridge ruins.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Listings. 2011-06-17. Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 6/06/11 through 6/10/11. National Park Service.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sunnydale Farm . J. Daniel Pezzoni (with research assistance by Paul and Chances Varson). December 2010. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying seven photos