Maiden Spring is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located at Pounding Mill,

Tazewell County, Virginia Tazewell County () is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,429. Its county seat is Tazewell. Tazewell County is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA Micropolitan S ...

. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. The main house consists of a large two-story, five-bay, frame, central-passage-plan dwelling with an earlier frame dwelling (c. 1772), incorporated as an ell. Also on the property are the contributing meat house, slave house, summer kitchen, horse barn, the stock barn, the hen house, the

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/ corn crib, the source of Maiden Spring, the cemetery, and the schoolhouse. It was the home of 19th-century congressman, magistrate and judge Rees Bowen (1809–1879) and his son,

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(1841-1915), also a congressman. During the

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, Confederate Army troops camped on the Maiden Spring Farm. an
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in 1994.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1838 Houses in Tazewell County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Tazewell County, Virginia {{TazewellCountyVA-NRHP-stub