{"nrhp_refnum":"93000505","name":"Cartersville Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File No. 24-126"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by VA 45, VA 649 and VA 656","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cartersville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"VA","lat":37.666698288500044,"lon":-78.08967468401354,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A village historic district of about forty-eight acres on a bluff above the James River in northern Cumberland County, Virginia, centered on High (Main) Street, Church Street, Tavern Road and State Route 45. It has 53 contributing and 7 noncontributing resources dating from the 1780s to about 1940.","why_significant":"Cartersville was founded in 1790 at the site of Carter's Ferry and prospered as a transportation center thanks to the ferry, the 1822 bridge and the 1851 canal. It declined after the railroad bypassed it, leaving a village little changed since the early twentieth century. The form argues it is significant for transportation and for an architecturally notable collection of Federal, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and vernacular buildings.","narrative":"Cartersville is a small village on a bluff above the James River in northern Cumberland County, Virginia. The Virginia General Assembly established it in 1790 at Carter's Ferry, a river crossing that also served as a Revolutionary War supply post. The ferry, the Cartersville Bridge of 1822 and the James River and Kanawha Canal, which arrived in 1851, made it a regional transportation center. After the Civil War the railroad bypassed the town, and its economy and population declined. The district covers about forty-eight acres and holds mostly wood-frame, weatherboard houses from around 1900, along with Federal-style houses and taverns from the 1780s to 1810, three churches, a post office, a former bank and several commercial buildings. Notable examples include the Deanery, the Cartersville Tavern, the Victorian Gothic Baptist church and three modified Queen Anne houses. The village has changed little since the early twentieth century, which is the basis for its listing for transportation history and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1780s to 1940","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Federal, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Mostly residential and well preserved. The 1883 Methodist church and the former Cartersville Bank building are described as vacant, and a former church now serves as the post office.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.907643-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/6803/41680359/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93000505.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000505/7343a6662b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000505/7343a6662b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartersville_Historic_District_at_dusk,_April_2017.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartersville_Historic_District_at_dusk,_April_2017.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680359","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartersville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047264"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/cumberland-county/cartersville-historic-district-93000505/"}