Maiden Spring is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. The main house consists of a large two-story, five-bay, frame, central-passage-plan dwelling with an earlier frame dwelling (c. 1772), incorporated as an ell. Also on the property are the contributing meat house, slave house, summer kitchen, horse barn, the stock barn, the hen house, the granary / corn crib, the source of Maiden Spring, the cemetery, and the schoolhouse. It was the home of 19th-century congressman, magistrate and judge Rees Bowen (1809–1879) and his son, Henry (1841-1915), also a congressman. During the American Civil War, Confederate Army troops camped on the Maiden Spring Farm.[3]

Maiden Spring
Front of the farmhouse
Maiden Spring is located in Virginia
Maiden Spring
Maiden Spring is located in the United States
Maiden Spring
LocationJct. of VA 609 and VA 91, Pounding Mill, Virginia
Coordinates37°1′48″N 81°41′1″W / 37.03000°N 81.68361°W / 37.03000; -81.68361
Area600 acres (240 ha)
Built1769 (1769), 1838
Architectural styleCentral-passage plan
NRHP reference No.94000987[1]
VLR No.092-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 16, 1994
Designated VLRJune 15, 1994[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  3. ^ Gibson Worsham (February 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Maiden Spring" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo