{"nrhp_refnum":"69000275","name":"Ingles Ferry","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of jct. of Rtes. 611 and 624","address_restricted":false,"city":"Radford","county":"Pulaski County","state":"VA","lat":37.11186744800003,"lon":-80.58618216634385,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Historic ferry site on the New River near Radford in Pulaski County, Virginia, centered on a tavern built in 1772 on the Pulaski side, with the Ingleside house across the river in Radford.","why_significant":"The ferry was started by William Ingles in 1762 and carried a major portion of the early settlers heading to Kentucky and Tennessee. Its tavern became a popular social center whose patrons included Andrew Jackson and George Rogers Clark. It is argued to be important as a local social center and a vital point in the westward movement through most of the nineteenth century.","narrative":"Ingles Ferry was a river crossing on the New River near Radford, Virginia, operated by the Ingles family from 1762, when William Ingles obtained a license to run a ferry boat. His brother-in-law, John Draper, assisted him. Traffic grew quickly, the boat ran day and night, and tolls reached over a thousand dollars a month. Much of the early settler movement into Kentucky and Tennessee passed over the crossing. On the Pulaski side, a tavern with a store was built in 1772 using logs from an abandoned fort, and it became a social center visited by Andrew Jackson and George Rogers Clark. Today only an early one-story log section and an early nineteenth-century two-story frame wing survive, in poor repair and unoccupied. The ferry house burned in 1967, leaving two chimneys. Across the river stands Ingleside, a frame house built by John Ingles in 1790. The ferry operated until 1948, when the last boat sank.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The tavern remains are unoccupied and in poor repair; the ferry house burned in 1967 and only its two chimneys remain; Ingleside across the river is in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.113569-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/6828/41682801/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000275.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682801","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingles_Ferry","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6032601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pulaski-county/ingles-ferry-69000275/"}