Castlerun Historic District

Castlerun Historic District is a national historic district located at Castlerun near Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia, United States. The district encompasses three contributing buildings that served the spiritual, educational, and social needs of this isolated far southwest Virginia community. They are the Castlerun School (c. 1895), the Castle Run Missionary Baptist Church (1924), and a frame privy (1926). The one-room school and church are frame, weatherboarded, rectangular buildings with a steep gable roofs. The school closed in 1951.[3]

Castlerun Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Church
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Location	Rte. 682, near Castlewood, Virginia
Coordinates	36°51′3″N 82°18′52″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1895 (1895)
NRHP reference No.	00000024[1]
VLR No.	083-5017
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 28, 2000
Designated VLR	December 1, 1999[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[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 2013-09-21. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
3. Anne Stuart Beckett (August 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Castlerun Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map