Dublin Historic District

Downtown Dublin, in Pulaski County, Virginia, grew from a depot built by the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad in 1854. Town lots were laid out the following year, and the town was incorporated in 1871. The historic district includes 132 buildings and sites, of which 98 contribute to its character. During the Civil War the depot area served as a Confederate military headquarters, and Union forces burned much of it in 1864. A new depot followed in 1866. The oldest surviving building is the mid-nineteenth-century Sutton House, a brick I-house with a Greek Revival portico. The Darst Building of 1871 is the oldest commercial structure. Later commercial blocks cluster near the main intersection, while Church Street holds the densest group of houses, including a Gothic Revival house from 1878 and many frame cottages. Three nineteenth-century churches, an early twentieth-century school complex, and Georgian Revival and Craftsman houses show how the town grew around its transportation links.