Prices Fork Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Prices Fork is a small crossroads village west of Blacksburg, where the old Peppers Ferry Road forks toward Browns Ferry. Its historic core is a tight cluster of frame and brick buildings under large maple, oak and catalpa trees. The oldest and most notable is the brick James Bain Price House of 1871, a Greek Revival farmhouse with a two-story central porch, surrounded by log outbuildings and a barn. Nearby stands Price's well-preserved weatherboarded store of the same year. Other buildings include a ca. 1920 Foursquare house, late nineteenth-century frame dwellings, a ca. 1900 store, and two churches: St. Marks Lutheran, moved here in 1877, and Prices Fork Methodist. The district was recognized for architecture because these buildings show how a country-store village developed along a turnpike from the 1870s into the early twentieth century, and because the buildings and plantings together keep a consistent, intact appearance. Two modern buildings do not contribute.