Sunnydale Farm

Sunnydale Farm is a hillside farm of about forty acres in northern Wise County, Virginia, watered by Mill Branch. Its main building is a story-and-a-half Craftsman bungalow built about 1919 for Mary Branham by her son Chant Kelly, with a stone foundation, an engaged porch with arched spans and later additions from the late 1940s and 1950s. Nearby are a blacksmith shop, chicken house, stone well, root cellar ruins, a family cemetery with graves dating from 1903, the stone chimney of a log tenant house, a complex of stone piles and the remains of coal mine openings and a tipple. The farm began about 1846 with Martin Branham. Chant Kelly later became a leading figure in the nearby town of Pound, providing electric, telephone and fire protection services, and developed the family coal workings commercially in the 1950s. The property was recognized for its community development, architecture and industry between about 1846 and 1960.