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Tygart Valley Homesteads Historic District

  • Also Known As: Tygart Valley resettlement community
  • Vicinity: Roughly bounded by US 250 - US219, Cty Rd 38 and Cty Rd 21
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

Tygart Valley Homesteads was a Roosevelt New Deal planned community built to resettle impoverished workers. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Smith, Benjamin Architect
1934/06/07 Eleanor Roosevelt Visitor Eleanor Roosevelt visits Tygart Valley Homesteads
1940/06/00 Eleanor Roosevelt Speaker Constructed in 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt speakers to the first ninth grade graduates at the Homestead School.

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Particulars for Tygart Valley Homesteads Historic District:
Historic Use Agricultural fields
Area of Significance Agriculture
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Civic
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Architectural Style Late 19th and 20th century revivals
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Area of Significance Politics-government
Owner Private
Historic Use Processing
Historic Use School
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History
Owner State
Historic Use Storage



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 22nd July 2004

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Tygart Valley Homesteads Historic District
Registry Address: Roughly bounded by US 250219, Cty Rd. 38 and Cty Rd. 21
Registry Number: 04000304
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private, Local, State
Architect: Smith, Benjamin
Architectural Style: Late 19th and 20th century revivals, Colonial revival
Area in Acres: 1500
Contributing Buildings: 337
Non-Contributing Buildings: 278
Contributing Sites: 3
Contributing Structures: 3
Non-Contributing Structures: 2
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Community Planning and Development, Politics-government, Social history, Agriculture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1940
Associated People: Roosevelt, Eleanor
Historic Function: Domestic, Education, Social, Agriculture, subsistence, Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Processing, Manufacturing facility, Storage, Agricultural fields, School, Civic
Current Function: Domestic, Education, Commerce, Trade, Agriculture, subsistence, Industry, processing, extraction
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling School Business Processing Manufacturing facility Storage Agricultural fields

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