New River Trail State Park, 176 Orphanage Dr., Max Meadows, Virginia. County/parish: Wythe.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 12, 2009. NRIS 09000925.
12 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 3 contributing structures.Also known as:
Foster Falls Historic District is a national historic district located near Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the village of Foster Falls. They are primarily industrial and commercial buildings and structures built in the late-19th century. They include the iron furnace stack, the rail bed and frame railroad passenger station (c. 1887), a general store building, and a combination gristmill/sawmill. The district includes the Foster Falls Hotel, a late-Victorian style brick building. The hotel property includes two brick dependencies associated with an orphanage that occupied the hotel building beginning in 1938. It now serves as the headquarters of the New River Trail State Park.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684237