Sunray Agricultural Historic District

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Sunray Agricultural Historic District
Sunray Agricultural Historic District is located in Virginia
Sunray Agricultural Historic District
Location Roughly bounded by Great Dismal Swamp & I 64, Chesapeake, Virginia
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Area 1,264 acres (512 ha)
Built 1908 (1908)
Architect Pavlovetz, Michale; Virginia State Board of Education
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, et al.
NRHP Reference # 03000564[1]
VLR # 131-5325
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 29, 2007
Designated VLR March 19, 2003[2]

Sunray Agricultural Historic District is a national historic district located at Chesapeake, Virginia. The district encompasses 188 contributing buildings, 90 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the early 20th-century immigrant farming community of Sunray. It includes early 20th century vernacular farmhouses, agricultural buildings, Sunray School (1922), and St. Mary’s Catholic Church (1915-1916). The district also includes a tidal ditch system, the abandoned Virginian Railroad Tracks (1909), and agricultural fields laid out with the platting of 1908.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

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