{"nrhp_refnum":"08000246","name":"Buckland Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["076-0313"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Parts of Buckland Mill & Cerro Gordo Rds., & US 29/15","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gainsville","county":"Prince William County","state":"VA","lat":38.77904362700008,"lon":-77.67832468799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-03-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Industry","Transportation","Military","Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district boundary increase of about 410 acres at Buckland, near Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. It adds the rest of the plotted turnpike town, the mill race and dam, Cerro Gordo and Buckland Hall plantations, Kinsley Mill and parts of the Civil War battlefields to the 1987 core district.","why_significant":"The form describes Buckland as one of the best-preserved late 18th- and early 19th-century turnpike towns in Virginia. It has a wide range of building types, the county's last standing grist mill and significant archaeological resources. The surrounding plantations and the Civil War Battles of Buckland add historical and visual context. Criteria and a formal period of significance are not legible in the excerpt.","narrative":"Buckland is a turnpike town on Broad Run in western Prince William County, and this boundary increase expands the district to about 410 acres. It adds the remaining town lots and street grid, the town common, the mill race and dam, Cerro Gordo and Buckland Hall plantations, Kinsley Mill and parts of the Civil War battlefields. The town grew around mills and the Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike, and incorporated in 1798. Surviving buildings include Love's Store, Brook's Tavern, Robinson's Tavern, the Buckland Post Office, the Trone House, the house of free African American Ned Distiller, and St. Mark's Methodist Church of 1856. The 1904 Buckland Mill is the last grist mill standing in the county. The railroad bypassed the town and the post-war economy declined, which spared Buckland from extensive change. Archaeological sites record foundations, roads, a quarry and spring heads. The form presents the district as an intact commercial and agricultural community.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Buckland Mill built 1904 by local builder H. W. Gough; St. Mark's Methodist Church built 1856 by Leslie Sanders and Thurston Brown; Isaac Meeks House built by George Britton; Trone House built by John Trone","architectural_style":"Early Republic, Mid-19th Century, Late 19th-/20th Century Revival, Other: I-house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Kinsley Mill and granary are no longer standing, though portions of their foundations remain. The district contains 46 contributing and 59 non-contributing resources, mostly late 20th-century dwellings and outbuildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.634014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/6827/41682753/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000246.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000246/fd0852ab88-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000246/fd0852ab88-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BUCKLAND_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_PRINCE_WILLIAM_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:BUCKLAND_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682753","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckland_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15205491"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-william-county/buckland-historic-district-boundary-increase-08000246/"}