{"nrhp_refnum":"86003650","name":"Snowville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"VA 693","address_restricted":false,"city":"Snowville","county":"Pulaski County","state":"VA","lat":37.033857167000036,"lon":-80.56270609166667,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear rural village historic district along State Route 693 in a bend of the Little River in east-central Pulaski County, Virginia. It was founded in the 1830s by Asiel Snow, and its surviving buildings date mainly from the 1850s to the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"Snowville was the manufacturing center of Pulaski County in the 1850s, until the railroad bypassed it. It was also a leading religious, social and cultural center, home to Dr. Chester Bullard and the county's first Masonic temple, newspaper and public library. The district keeps relatively intact vernacular buildings of similar scale and materials, and has few modern intrusions.","narrative":"Snowville is a small village strung along State Route 693 in a bend of the Little River in Pulaski County, Virginia. Cabinetmaker Asiel Snow settled there in 1833, drawn by the river's water power, and the village became the county's manufacturing center by the 1850s, with a linseed-oil factory, sawmill and wool-carding operation. The railroad bypassed it in the mid 1850s and it declined. The district includes 21 contributing buildings, among them a church, a Masonic temple, a school, a former blacksmith shop and many wood-frame houses, plus a cemetery. Most are vernacular, and several show Greek Revival detailing. Dr. Chester Bullard helped establish the Christian Church in southwestern Virginia. The village also had the county's first Masonic temple, newspaper and public library. Similar scale and materials, open surrounding land and few modern intrusions keep the nineteenth-century rural character of a pre-railroad industrial village.","period_of_significance":"mid 19th-early 20th centuries","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular, with Greek Revival detailing on several buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are houses in use. The school is now a warehouse, the mill is a summer residence, and the store and post office is abandoned and partly collapsed. A note says the house on lot 41 has been torn down.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.859563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6827/41682787/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86003650.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003650/480afc21f3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003650/480afc21f3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snowville_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Skye Marthaler</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:Snowville_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682787","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15278312"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pulaski-county/snowville-historic-district-86003650/"}