{"nrhp_refnum":"06000801","name":"Kentland Farm Historic and Archeological District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["060-0202"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W terminus Whitethorne Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blacksburg","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.18966164900007,"lon":-80.57961041299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Prehistoric","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Exploration/Settlement","Industry","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase and amendment to the Kentland Farm Historic and Archaeological District near Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, adding one contributing archaeological site, a previously unrecorded slave cemetery (44MY527), and documenting recent archaeological research on the Kentland plantation.","why_significant":"Archaeological work since 2001 has deepened understanding of the Kentland domestic complex, the slave quarters and slave cemeteries, and revealed a Late Woodland prehistoric occupation. The newly identified slave cemetery, found with the Wake Forest descendant community, required adjusting the district boundary. The research shows the property's potential to inform Late Woodland settlement patterns and 19th-century plantation life in Southwest Virginia.","narrative":"Kentland Farm is a historic plantation property near Blacksburg, Virginia, established by James Randall and Mary Cloyd Kent, with a mid-1830s brick farmhouse at its center. This amendment to the district adds one contributing site, a slave cemetery identified in 2004 and 2005. Local oral history from the Wake Forest community, whose members are largely descended from people enslaved at Kentland, led researchers to the site. Five exploratory trenches revealed 24 grave shafts and several post molds on a ridge top northeast of the farmhouse. Other excavations near the farmhouse uncovered the buried remains of a detached kitchen, a possible early structure in the east yard, and a slave quarter later used as a tenant house. Researchers also found a Late Woodland prehistoric occupation with New River Ware ceramics. Together, these findings show how much the property can reveal about Native American settlement and plantation life in Southwest Virginia.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Virginia Tech administers the property, and its College of Agriculture and Life Sciences operates it as the College Farm; the farmhouse is a single dwelling and the property also serves as a research facility.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.38522-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6788/41678834/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000801.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000801/a26c26f373-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000801/a26c26f373-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth Novy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kentland_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth Novy</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:Kentland_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678834","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentland_Farm_Historic_and_Archeological_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712660"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/kentland-farm-historic-and-archeological-district-boundary-increase-06000801/"}