Staunton River State Park Historic District

Staunton River State Park occupies rolling, forested land where the Dan and Staunton (Roanoke) Rivers meet in Halifax County, Virginia. Most of its core was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1942 as part of Virginia's first state park system. A main road laid out to National Park Service guidelines runs from the entrance to a bluff-top cabin area overlooking the river. Along it are a restaurant with a camp store wing, a pool and bath house, two picnic areas with stone-foundation shelters, a boat storage building, a campground and hiking trails. Eight CCC-era cabins of board-and-batten and fieldstone survive, though many have updated interiors and porches. The district was listed for its link to the CCC and state park development, and for the integrity of its park plan and rustic buildings. It counts 24 contributing and 32 noncontributing resources, and the restaurant has stood vacant since about 1992.