Sanders Farm

3908 Fort Chiswell Rd., Max Meadows, Virginia. County/parish: Wythe.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 22, 2003. NRIS 03000454.

13 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • VDHR file no. 098-0192

From Wikipedia:

Sanders Farm

Sanders Farm is a historic home and farm located at Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The Brick House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, Queen Anne style brick farmhouse. It features ornamental gables and porches. Also on the property are the contributing cold frame with a stepped front parapet (c. 1900), a vaulted stone spring house, a one-story brick servants quarters (c. 1880), a cinder block store with an upstairs apartment and an accompanying privy (1950s), a frame vehicle repair shop (c. 1920s), a stone reservoir (1880s) two corn crib, a frame gambrel-roofed barn, a one-story tenant house (c. 1920), stone bridge abutments, and the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine (late 1880s), a complex of rock formations and tram line beds.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684221

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