Snake Creek Farm Historic District is a national

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near Hillsville,

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. The district encompasses four contributing buildings and one contributing site on Snake Creek Farm. They include the main house, a frame

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and meathouse, and a frame two-room schoolhouse. Also on the property is a large family cemetery. The main house was built about 1910, and is a 2½-story, double-pile, center-passage-plan frame dwelling. an
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in 1991.

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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Buildings and structures in Carroll County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Virginia {{CarrollCountyVA-NRHP-stub