{"nrhp_refnum":"04001274","name":"Sunnyside","other_names":["Sunnyside Farms","DHR Id # 078-0049"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"186 Sunnyside Orchard Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Rappahannock County","state":"VA","lat":38.740643631500035,"lon":-78.15949557077786,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sunnyside is a 421-acre working farm and orchard district near Washington in Rappahannock County, Virginia, centered on a log house begun circa 1785 with stone kitchen wing and later additions, plus secondary dwellings, outbuildings and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"It is the site of the first commercial apple orchard in Rappahannock County, planted by Charles Burrell Wood in 1873, and has operated as a commercial orchard continuously since. It is also significant as a well-preserved collection of domestic and agricultural buildings dating from circa 1785 to 1954.","narrative":"Sunnyside is a 421-acre farm district near Washington, Virginia, in Rappahannock County, set in a hollow beside Fodder Stack Mountain and Shenandoah National Park. Its main house began as a two-story log dwelling around 1785, gained a stone kitchen wing about 1800, a frame wing around 1850, and further additions in 1940 and 1996. Around it stand secondary dwellings, a stone slave quarters, smokehouses, a springhouse, a root cellar, a family cemetery and modern farm buildings. The property was bought by Henry Miller in 1780 and stayed with his descendants, including the Wood family, until 1996. Its main importance lies in agriculture: Charles Burrell Wood planted the first commercial apple orchard in the county here in 1873, and seedlings from his trees supplied later orchards. Sunnyside remains a commercial orchard today, with apples, peaches, vegetables and pasture. Its collection of farm buildings also records how a working farm adapted over time.","period_of_significance":"circa 1785-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Log House","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Continues as a working commercial orchard and farm with vegetables, pasture, apple and peach trees; the main house and outbuildings remain in domestic and agricultural use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.502014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/6828/41682817/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04001274.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001274/1987db641d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001274/1987db641d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"self","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Sunnyside_Farm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">self</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Sunnyside_Farm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682817","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyside_(Washington,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900922"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rappahannock-county/sunnyside-04001274/"}