Back Creek Farm

Back Creek Farm is a historic home located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It dates to the late-18th century, and is a two-story, five bay, brick I-house with a side gable roof. It has a two-story rear ell, sits on a rubble limestone basement, and has interior end chimneys with corbelled caps. The front facade features a pedimented tetrastyle Ionic order porch with an elegant frontispiece doorway with stop-fluted Corinthian order pilasters. Its builder was Joseph Cloyd (1742-1833). During the American Civil War, on May 9, 1864, the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain was fought on the property. The house served that day as a hospital and as headquarters for the Union General George Crook, under whose command were Captains Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.[3]

Back Creek Farm
Distant view from State Route 100 to the east
Back Creek Farm is located in Virginia
Back Creek Farm
Back Creek Farm is located in the United States
Back Creek Farm
LocationNW side of VA 617, near Dublin, Virginia
Coordinates37°10′00″N 80°42′44″W
Area756 acres (306 ha)
Architectural styleEarly Republic
NRHP reference No.75002032[1]
VLR No.077-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 21, 1975
Designated VLRFebruary 18, 1975[2]

North of the house is the barn,[3]: 6  a stone structure whose damage from Union artillery is still evident.[4] This Pennsylvania barn is built of limestone of different sorts: many of the walls are rubble, while set above the basement windows are small arches of carefully prepared stonework.[3]: 6 

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (February 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Back Creek Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-10-01. and Accompanying photo
  4. Clauson-Wicker, Su, for the Roanoke Times. "Mary Catherine Stout: Cloyd's Mountain History Keeper". News and Advance 2017-05-30, C6.


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