National Register of Historic Places

Wilkins Farm

Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Listed
February 10, 2014
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
13001175

About this property

The Wilkins Farm is a historic farmstead at 989 Swover Creek Road in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, near Edinburg. The home was recognized under three criterion. Criterion A under Exploration/Settlement as a late 18th-century German farmstead, Criterion B in the area of Art as the boyhood home of fraktur artist Emanuel Wilkins, and Criterion C for Architecture of German builders who used native materials of limestone, hardwoods and Yellow pine. The primary dwelling on the farm was a frontier log structure, c.1776 that was evolved to a two-story midland folk, log home c. 1789. The older portion, a simple log cabin, was built by Augustine Cofman in order to satisfy the requirements of a land grant he had received the prior year, which required placement of a dwelling on the 188.5-acre (76.3 ha) grant. A The larger, two- story log structure was built with the cabin as a side ell. The farm was in the Wilkins family from 1824 until 2003. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

Location

989 Swover Creek Rd.
Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia
38.84203, -78.60834

Categories

EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENTARCHITECTUREART
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Wilkins Farm listed on the National Register?

Wilkins Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 2014.

What type of historic resource is Wilkins Farm?

Wilkins Farm is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Wilkins Farm is recorded as the industrial era.

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