Mount Zion is a historic home located at Milldale,

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. It was built in 1771–1772, and is a two-story, seven-bay,

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. It has a hipped roof and four interior end chimneys. The front facade features windows in a widely spaced Palladian motif on the second story. an
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in 1970, and was listed again as part of the Rockland Rural Historic District in 2015. Mount Zion, State Route 624, Front Royal vicinity (Warren County, Virginia).jpg ,

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Mount Zion, State Route 624, Front Royal, Warren County, VA
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