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Castlerun Historic District

Castlerun Historic District
Castle Run Community Church.jpg
Church
Castlerun Historic District is located in Virginia
Castlerun Historic District
Castlerun Historic District is located in the US
Castlerun Historic District
Location Rte. 682, near Castlewood, Virginia
Coordinates 36°51′3″N 82°18′52″W / 36.85083°N 82.31444°W / 36.85083; -82.31444Coordinates: 36°51′3″N 82°18′52″W / 36.85083°N 82.31444°W / 36.85083; -82.31444
Area less than one acre
Built 1895 (1895)
NRHP reference # 00000024
VLR # 083-5017
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 28, 2000
Designated VLR December 1, 1999

Castlerun Historic District is a national historic district located at Castlerun near Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia. The district encompasses three contributing buildings that served the spiritual, educational, and social needs of this isolated far southwest Virginia community. They are the Castlerun School (c. 1895), the Castle Run Missionary Baptist Church (1924), and a frame privy (1926). The one-room school and church are frame, weatherboarded, rectangular buildings with a steep gable roofs. The school closed in 1951.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.


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