Prices Fork Historic District

Prices Fork is a rural village in Montgomery County, Virginia, clustered along VA Route 685 where the old road toward Peppers Ferry splits from the road to Browns Ferry. The district holds fifteen buildings: houses, two stores, two churches, a former schoolhouse and outbuildings, dating from 1871 to about 1930. James Bain Price built the brick Greek Revival house, with its log meathouse and barn, and a gable-fronted frame store in 1871. St. Marks Lutheran Church moved to the village in 1877, and a Methodist church, further houses and a second store followed. Large oaks, maples and catalpas tie the buildings together visually. The district was listed for architecture because it shows how a country-store village developed beside a turnpike between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its consistency and integrity set it apart from other communities in the western part of the county. A modern grange hall and a ranch-style parsonage are the only noncontributing buildings.