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Beach Station (Chesterfield, Virginia)

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United States historic place
Beach Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
George Perdue House at Beach Station Historic District, October 2012
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Location11410 & 11400 Beach Rd., Chesterfield, Virginia
Coordinates37°21′20″N 77°35′42″W / 37.35556°N 77.59500°W / 37.35556; -77.59500
Area0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Builtc. 1890 (1890)
Built byPerdue, Nathaniel B.; Perdue, George Porter
NRHP reference No.08000067
VLR No.020-5386
Significant dates
Added to NRHPFebruary 22, 2008
Boundary decreaseMarch 24, 2010
Designated VLRDecember 5, 2007

Beach Station a national historic district located near Chesterfield, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The district includes six contributing buildings and one contributing site in the Village of Beach. They were all constructed about 1890 and are two single-family dwellings, a post office, a railway depot, an outbuilding, two railroad shanties, and the ruins of the former general store. Beach Station was accessible from the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad later named the Tidewater and Western Railroad. Leasing arrangements had been made with the Brighthope Railway company which was sold to become the Farmville and Powhatan. The district represents an unusual collection of late-nineteenth-century buildings in their historic surroundings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

  • Perdue-Mitchell House, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia Perdue-Mitchell House, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia
  • Railroad Depot, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia. This was a railroad station on the Bright Hope Railroad. Railroad Depot, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia. This was a railroad station on the Bright Hope Railroad.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  3. "Historic Beach Station National Register of Historic Places Virginia Historic Landmark Chesterfield County Historic Landmark" (PDF). The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia. July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  4. Nancy W. Kraus (August 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Beach Station" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo
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