{"nrhp_refnum":"97001076","name":"Clapham's Ferry","other_names":["Spinks Ferry","Lost Corner Farm","Riverside","DHR File No. 53-7"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"44344 E. Spinks Ferry Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Leesburg","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.22232220650005,"lon":-77.46406186431302,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clapham's Ferry is a rural farm complex near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, on the Potomac River. It has an early nineteenth-century red sandstone dwelling, log outbuildings, a large bank barn and a corn crib, and sits near the site of a ferry licensed in 1757.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is historically significant as the site of an early ferry crossing between Loudoun County and Maryland. It is architecturally significant as one of the most intact early nineteenth-century rural dwellings with outbuildings in Loudoun County. The stone house probably served as the ferry owner's residence and the center of a successful farm.","narrative":"Clapham's Ferry is a 355-acre farm on the Potomac River near Leesburg, Virginia, centered on a two-and-one-half-story red sandstone house with a two-story stone kitchen wing. Nearby are a log kitchen, a log meat house, a large bank barn and a corn crib. The Virginia Legislature authorized Josias Clapham to operate a public ferry across the Potomac to Maryland in 1757. The Claphams ran it intermittently until 1816, when William Hawling took it over. It passed to John Spinks in 1833 and operated until about the Civil War. Nothing remains at the ferry landing except scattered debris. The stone house, probably built in the early nineteenth century, retains its Federal interior woodwork and original mantels. The nomination values it as one of the most intact early rural dwellings with outbuildings in Loudoun County. The bank barn, among the county's largest, reflects a productive grain and cattle operation on the river bottomland.","period_of_significance":"1757-1900","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The ferry site has no remaining structures. The house complex survives, with a tenant house and a poultry house deemed noncontributing. The dwelling and farm buildings are listed as current domestic and agricultural uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.924471-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/6816/41681639/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97001076.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001076/a55bfc94d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001076/a55bfc94d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CLAPHAM%27S_FERRY,_LOUDOUN_COUNTY,_VA.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:CLAPHAM%27S_FERRY,_LOUDOUN_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681639","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham%27s_Ferry","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712176"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/claphams-ferry-97001076/"}