Prices Fork Historic District
historic district in Virginia, United States
Prices Fork Historic District is a national historic district located at Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings in the village of Prices Fork. It includes a variety of vernacular residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating to the 19th century. Notable buildings include the James Bain Price House (1871), Price Store (1871), Prices Fork Methodist Church, and St. Marks Lutheran Church (1877).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and increased in size in 2014.
The Price Family Historical Society preserves records for members of the Price Family who have settled in the area.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Prices Fork Historic District” is historic district in Virginia, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Prices, Fork and Historic, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14713098. Authority coordinates are 37.209, -80.491. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1871, 1877, 1991 and 2014.
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This entry incorporates text from “Prices Fork Historic District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.