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Wilkins Farm

Coordinates: 38°50′23″N 78°36′34″W / 38.83972°N 78.60944°W / 38.83972; -78.60944
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Wilkins Farm
Wilkins Farm is located in Virginia
Wilkins Farm
Wilkins Farm is located in the United States
Wilkins Farm
Location989 Swover Creek Road, near Edinburg, Virginia
Coordinates38°50′23″N 78°36′34″W / 38.83972°N 78.60944°W / 38.83972; -78.60944
Area3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built1776 (1776)
Built byAugustine Cofman
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No.13001175[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 10, 2014

The Wilkins Farm is a historic farmstead at 989 Swover Creek Road in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, near Edinburg. The home was recognized under three criterion. Criterion A[2] under Exploration/Settlement as a late 18th-century German farmstead, Criterion B in the area of Art as the boyhood home of fraktur artist Emanuel Wilkins, and Criterion C for Architecture of German builders who used native materials of limestone, hardwoods and Yellow pine. The primary dwelling on the farm was a frontier log structure, c.1776 that was evolved to a two-story midland folk, log home c. 1789. The older portion, a simple log cabin, was built by Augustine Cofman in order to satisfy the requirements of a land grant he had received the prior year, which required placement of a dwelling on the 188.5-acre (76.3 ha) grant. A The larger, two-[2] story log structure was built with the cabin as a side ell. The farm was in the Wilkins family from 1824 until 2003.[3]

The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b VDHR 85-216
  3. ^ "NRHP nomination for Wilkins Farm" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved 2014-03-08.

VDHR 85-216