{"nrhp_refnum":"86002183","name":"Douthat State Park Historic District","other_names":["Douthat State Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"VA 629","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millboro","county":"Alleghany County","state":"VA","lat":37.89534463000004,"lon":-79.8112200394392,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Conservation","Engineering","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 4,493-acre state park historic district near Millboro in Alleghany and Bath counties, Virginia, centered on a fifty-acre lake and a group of rustic log and wood-frame buildings built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1942.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a leading example of the Progressive and New Deal era movement to create state parks and of rustic park architecture. The CCC built all contributing buildings, the dam and lake, and forty miles of trails. Its log cabins, lodge and superintendent's residence were praised and published in the National Park Service's Park Structures and Facilities.","narrative":"Douthat State Park in Alleghany and Bath counties, Virginia, covers 4,493 acres and is organized around a fifty-acre lake formed by a dam on Wilson Creek. Between 1933 and 1942, three camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps built nearly everything of historic interest: twenty-five log cabins, a guest lodge, a superintendent's residence, a restaurant, a bathhouse, a boathouse, picnic and camping shelters, maintenance buildings, a fire lookout cabin and forty miles of trails. Developed areas occupy about one-seventh of the park, grouped by function to protect the surrounding landscape. The log buildings, with stone foundations, fireplaces and hand-wrought hardware, exemplify rustic park design, and four of them appeared in the National Park Service's Park Structures and Facilities. Later buildings from 1951 to 1976 do not contribute, though most were designed to blend with the earlier work. The district retains the character of its original 1930s design and reflects the era's state park movement.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC Companies 1373 and 1374); Lee H. Williamson, dam designing engineer; plans signed by Burson","architectural_style":"Rustic architecture (log construction, with some wood-frame buildings)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a state park; most buildings are in good or excellent condition, with interior improvements to cabins under way.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.790558-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/6794/41679472/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86002183.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002183/503a1c8544-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002183/503a1c8544-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Virginia State Parks staff","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DO_-_Cabin_7_(3836920512).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia State Parks staff</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DO_-_Cabin_7_(3836920512).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679472","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99195318"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alleghany-county/douthat-state-park-historic-district-86002183/"}