Pulaski South Historic Residential and Industrial District

South of Peak Creek in Pulaski, Virginia, this district covers the town's earliest settled area along Valley Street and the residential streets that grew around it. It includes 307 contributing buildings, most of them houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many follow vernacular plans such as the T-plan and center-passage house, some with Queen Anne decoration, while later streets add bungalows, foursquares and a few Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival homes. At the western end stand the office, commissary and worker housing of the Bertha Zinc and Mineral Company, Pulaski's first large industry. The attached six-unit brick rowhouses on State Street are unusual for Virginia company towns and may reflect the Welsh background of the plant's first manager and early workers. The plant itself is excluded because of continual change. Other buildings include the 1924 Jefferson School and a former Episcopal chapel from about 1880. Together they show how Pulaski developed as an industrial community.