National Register of Historic Places

Maiden Spring

Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia
Listed
August 15, 1994
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
94000987

About this property

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

Location

Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia
37.04153, -81.68761

Categories

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Sources

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When was Maiden Spring listed on the National Register?

Maiden Spring was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1994.

What type of historic resource is Maiden Spring?

Maiden Spring is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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