Photograph courtesy of Virginia State Historic Preservation Office
Rockland Rural Historic District
Virginia, Reference number: 15000809
Area of Significance: Agriculture, Exploration/Settlement, Ethnic Heritage: Black, Transportation, and Architecture
Period of Significance: 1771-1965
Large, 10,000+ acre rural historic district that has significance in many layers of historic contexts and areas of significance. Has good example of multi-component location map.
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Photograph by JOne Emmons, courtesy of Redwood National and State Park
Lyons Ranches Historic District
California, Reference number: 100002212
Areas of Significance: Agriculture, Architecture, Exploration/Settlement, Ethnic Heritage-Native American
Period of Significance: 1868-1959
Locally significant under National Register Criteria A and C. the 5,660-acre district, set within the open prairie and oak woodlands of the Redwood Creek watershed, reflects the era of peak sheep ranching in the Bald Hills area from 1869 to 1959. Associated with the prominent Lyons family--pioneering settler Jonathan and his Native American (Hupa) wife Amelia, his sons Antonio, William, Anderson, Sherman, and grandson Gene--the extant ranch landscape retains many natural features (open prairies), patterns of spacial organization, and working ranch buildings typical of historic period sheep ranching. The extant resources represent a rapidly disappearing regional property type and cultural landscape.
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Photograph by Debra Olson Suarez, courtesy of Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes Peninsula Dairy Ranches Historic District
California, Reference number: 100002147
Areas of Significance: Agriculture, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1857-1956
Locally significant under National Register Criteria A and C, the 22,237-acre agricultural landscape is composed of 17 (formerly private) farmsteads operated as dairy ranches between 1857 and 1956. The documentation provides snapshot descriptions for each of the 17 ranches as well as looking at the broader landscape. The extant historic farming landscape retains many natural features (open prairies, wooded drainages), patterns of spacial organization, and working diary buildings typical of the evolving character of historic period dairy ranching during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The extant resources represent a rapidly disappearing regional property type and cultural landscape.
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Photograph by Thomas H. Simmons, courtesy or Colorado State Historic Preservation Office
Tarryall Rural Historic District
Colorado, Reference number: 100000788
Areas of Significance: Agriculture, Architecture, Exploration/Settlement, Entertainment/Recreation, Transportation, Archaeology
Period of Significance: 1862-1965
This is an excellent example from a technical perspective, of a very large (27,000+ acres) rural historic district comprised of two discontiguous sections containing a wide variety of resources.
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Last updated: November 17, 2022