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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia (76 P) Pages in category "Farms in West Virginia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The Manor (West Virginia) Maplewood (Pliny, West Virginia) James Mason House and Farm; May–Kraus Farm; Gen. John McCausland House; McClung's Price Place; The Meadows (Moorefield, West Virginia) Media Farm; Miller Tavern and Farm; Miller–Pence Farm
However, slaveowners in western Virginia tended to own fewer slaves than their counterparts in eastern Virginia and many did not support Virginia's secession. [10] In Mason County, where small farms were reliant upon slavery, its residents overwhelmingly supported the Union cause. [9]
The forests cover 1.8 million acres (2,800 sq mi) of land in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Approximately 1 million acres (1,600 sq mi) of the forest are remote and undeveloped and 139,461 acres (218 sq mi) [2] have been designated as wilderness areas, which prohibits future development.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. [1]
The Virginia General Assembly authorized the sale. The Blue Ridge Mountains Council (Roy Webb, a local of Pulaski, also put in bids for land, and got a little over 300 acres in the sale, including the Iron Furnace, a hiking trail that Mr Webb cut out was named after him, it runs off Dead Pine Mnt) put in the successful bid of $56,100 and ...
The land on which Ridgedale Farm is located can be traced back to Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, as can many of the large tracts in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. [4] It was surveyed around 1749 by George Washington. [4] The farm was first settled in 1725 by Peter Peters. [4]
Mill Creek Mountain, a narrow anticlinal mountain ridge, rises to the west of the opposite riverbank of the South Branch Potomac River, and the western foothills of South Branch Mountain rise to the east. [62] [63] [64] Mill Creek and South Branch Mountains contain Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests of hardwoods and pine. [65]