Fairy Stone State Park Historic District

Fairy Stone State Park is a recreational landscape wrapped around Fairy Stone Lake, a manmade lake formed by damming Goblintown Creek in Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia. Most of its core was built between 1933 and 1942 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The park includes a meandering entrance road with stone retaining walls, nine original log cabins on the lakefront and hillside, a beach with a concession building and bath house, stone picnic shelters, a log restroom, a horse barn, a custodian's house and a campground with a cross-shaped bath house. Buildings use stone, logs and board-and-batten siding in a rustic style that follows National Park Service guidelines. Later additions, such as a visitor center, an amphitheater and newer campgrounds, date outside the historic period. The district matters as an example of how the CCC and the National Park Service shaped Virginia's first state parks, and because nearly all of its CCC-era resources survive.