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Round Hill gains historic designation
The Round Hill Historic District has been accepted for listing in the Virginia Landmarks Register.
The application to include 96 acres, the core of the town, in the register was submitted by the town in July 2008. The Board of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources voted its approval Dec 18.
The nomination of the new district to the National Register of Historic Places will go forward to the National Park Service.
Town Planner and Zoning Administrator Rob Kinsley, in a press release, noted that the historic designations are honorary and "do not impose any additional zoning regulations upon the properties included."
Kathleen Kilpatrick, director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and state historic preservation officer, wrote to Kinsley, "The Round Hill Historic District deserves this official recognition as one of the Commonwealth's historic resources. The responsibility for preserving Virgina's irreplaceable historic resources rests ultimately with interested citizens like you. While registration does not in itself protect the property, we hope this formal recognition will provide encouragement to your continuing efforts to preserve this important part of Virginia's history."
The nomination notes that Round Hill was "a small crossroads" in the mid-19th century, with only a few resources surviving from that period "with one dating to the late 18th century." The nomination goes on to substantiate that "more than 60 percent of the historic buildings within the district date to the years between 1880 and 1920 ... The surviving architecture within the district thus reflects the town's heyday – the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the railroad was still operational."
Round Hill was incorporated in 1900 as growth peaked in the town.
Route 7 forms the southern border of the district, which is included roughly inside Locust Street to the west, Bridge Street to the east and the northern terminus of Main Street (Route 719) to the north. For a detailed map, go to the town's Web site, www.roundhillva.org, and click on "Proposed Historic District & Map."
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