Cifax Rural Historic District

Cifax Rural Historic District covers roughly 1,800 acres of open farmland and wooded hillsides in a small upland valley of northeastern Bedford County, Virginia. Narrow tree-lined roads link farms whose houses and barns date from the second quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. Log dwellings, such as the Dillard Coffey and David Haynes houses, sit alongside frame farmhouses built in the early twentieth century and The Cedars, a Greek Revival brick house that is the only pre-twentieth-century brick building in the area. Three church buildings, an early school and the site of a locally important store add to the mix. The district is tied to the Poindexter family, who divided a large landholding into the area's first farms. It also reflects village commerce under Henry Thomson and the settlement of Scotchbroom City, a black community with its own Baptist church and school. Most farmers still raise cattle, corn and hay.