Markham Historic District

Markham is a small rural village in a hollow between three mountains in northwest Fauquier County, Virginia, combined with the older settlement of Farrowsville to form a linear district of about 81 acres. Farrowsville grew up as an early 19th-century crossroads and mill center on a stagecoach road. Markham itself took shape after the Manassas Gap Railroad arrived in 1852 and placed a station there. The district holds 48 contributing resources, including an 1819 stone church, early farm complexes such as Mountain View with its log and stone outbuildings, inns, a railroad station, stores, a former mill, a cobbler's shop, dwellings, and the 1918 Markham School. Styles range from vernacular I-houses to Greek Revival. Bypassed by Interstate 66 and bounded by steep terrain, the village kept much of its 19th-century character. It was listed for its intact architecture and for its role in transportation, commerce and Civil War military history, when Union troops occupied the village.