{"nrhp_refnum":"04000043","name":"Ashville Historic District","other_names":["Vdhr # 030-5323"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Area including 4236-4130 Ashville Rd. and part of Old Ashville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marshall","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.867177444500044,"lon":-77.9225932600668,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 23-acre rural historic district in the village of Ashville, about 3.5 miles west of Marshall in northwest Fauquier County, Virginia. It is a Reconstruction-era African-American community of dwellings, a church, a former school, a former store and a cemetery, dating from about 1870.","why_significant":"The district is significant as an intact Reconstruction-era African-American village that grew on land willed to former slaves by the Ash sisters in 1869. It shows the community's emphasis on land ownership, worship and education, and is described as one of the best preserved of several such communities in Fauquier County. Its vernacular buildings and Gothic Revival church also support its architectural significance.","narrative":"Ashville is a small rural village in northwest Fauquier County, Virginia, about 3.5 miles west of Marshall. It grew after the Civil War on land that sisters Harriet and Catherine Ash willed to their former slaves in 1869. The 23-acre district follows Ashville Road and holds seventeen contributing resources: modest vernacular houses and outbuildings, the Gothic Revival Ashville Baptist Church rebuilt in 1899, a school building from the 1910s, a former store, and a community cemetery with burials dating to 1873. Land ownership, worship, education and commerce shaped the settlement, and the school lot was deeded to public school trustees as early as 1876. Although Ashville has continued to grow through the twentieth century, its streetscape retains an early-twentieth-century appearance with few modern intrusions. It is described as one of the best preserved of several African-American communities that developed in the county in the late nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1870-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Other (vernacular)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most dwellings are still used as residences; the church and cemetery remain in use, the former school is being renovated, and the former store is now a residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.252033-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/6806/41680643/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000043.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000043/9be666570e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000043/9be666570e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASHVILLE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASHVILLE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680643","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashville_Historic_District_(Marshall,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711980"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/ashville-historic-district-04000043/"}