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South Rockfish Valley Rural Historic District

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Elk Hill Baptist Church
Elk Hill Baptist Church

The South Rockfish Valley Rural Historic District encompasses a large rural landscape in northern Nelson County, Virginia. It includes more than 1,600 acres (650 ha) of rolling bottomlands of the South Fork Rockfish River, with Virginia State Route 151 as its principal transportation route. This area has been farmed since the 18th century, and many of its early land use patterns persist to this day.The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Properties within the district that were previously listed on the National Register include River Bluff, Elk Hill, Three Chimneys, and the Wintergreen Country Store.

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South Rockfish Valley Rural Historic District
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Rockfish Valley Highway 3399
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Elk Hill (Nellysford, Virginia)
Elk Hill (Nellysford, Virginia)

Elk Hill is a historic house and farm complex located near Nellysford, Nelson County, Virginia. Operated for more than 250 years, it is one of the earliest extant farms in Nelson County. The 173-acre (0.70 km2) rural farm bounded in part by the South Fork of the Rockfish River and Reid's Creek. The main house is a substantial two-story, three-bay wide frame dwelling with a central hall plan, with the original portion built between 1790 and 1810. Since Samuel Reid sold the farm in 1805 to Hawes Coleman (whose descendants owned it until 1977, it is unclear which family constructed the current house, particularly since the property contained the ruins of a smaller structure which was occupied into the 20th century. The house underwent a series of 19th-century additions and a major remodeling in 1902 in the neoclassical style. The property includes structures showing the succession of major crops in the area, from tobacco in the 18th and 19th centuries, to apples in the early 20th centuries. The current owner began a vineyard and winery late in the 20th century, partly on land once operated as High View Farm (ca. 1830s), as well as issued in 2005 a conservation easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to protect its natural habitat and rural character. The contributing outbuildings include: smokehouse, built in the last quarter of the 18th century; tobacco barn, built circa 1790–1810; 19th century chicken house, two seat outhouse, and double crib barn; garages built in 1902 and in 1955; and a stone boundary/retaining wall, built in the last quarter of the 18th century.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.