DOM ACP VA Structures Add 4 Report 1-8-17

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PHASE I HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE
ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE PROJECT
Virginia Addendum 4 Report
Prepared by
January 2017
PHASE I HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE
ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE PROJECT
Virginia Addendum 4 Report
DHR File No. 2014-0710

Draft

Prepared for
Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC
701 E. Cary Street,
Richmond, VA 23219

Prepared by
ERM
3300 Breckinridge Boulevard
Suite 300
Duluth, GA 30096

Emily Tucker-Laird, Principal Investigator
Report prepared by Emily Tucker-Laird, Laura Voisin George, Jeffrey L. Holland,
and Larissa A. Thomas, Ph.D.
With contributions by Kimberly Barnard, David Casteel, Mary Beth Derrick,
Danielle Ross, and Jessica Wobig

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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project
Phase I Historic Architectural Report
ABSTRACT
This report presents the results that were achieved during Phase I historic architectural surveys
conducted in association with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC (Atlantic) Atlantic Coast Pipeline
(ACP) project (Project). Dominion Transmission, Inc. (DTI) will build and operate approximately
603.8 miles of natural gas transmission pipeline and associated laterals on behalf of Atlantic,
which is a joint venture consisting of subsidiaries of Dominion Resources, Duke Energy,
Piedmont Natural Gas, and Southern Company Gas. The pipeline system extends from West
Virginia to southern North Carolina, and the Project also will include access roads, meter
stations, compressor stations, and other above-ground facilities. This document presents
findings for the segment of the pipeline corridor in Virginia, which is 308.1 miles long, and
passes through Highland, Bath, Augusta, Nelson, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince Edward,
Nottoway, Dinwiddie, Brunswick, and Southampton counties, as well as the cities of Suffolk and
Chesapeake. It includes the 235.8 mile-long trunk line (AP-1), and three laterals (AP-3, AP-4,
and AP-5) that total 72.3 miles. The Area of Potential Effects (APE) includes the 300-foot-wide
survey corridor that will encompass the construction zone and the permanent pipeline right-of-
way for the proposed pipeline, the footprints for access roads and other facilities associated with
the Project, and areas of potential indirect (visual) effects that lie within line of sight of proposed
aboveground facilities and landscape changes due to clearing of vegetation or other impacts
associated with construction. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the lead
federal agency, and work was conducted pursuant to the requirements of Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended.
The current document contains survey results associated with segments of the Project where
access previously had been denied, and in conjunction with previously unsurveyed proposed
access roads and facilities. ERM performed public road survey for the remainder of the
previously denied areas with a viewshed to the Project corridor in Virginia, recording historic
structures that were visible from public vantage points.
Dovetail Cultural Resource Group (Dovetail) conducted initial portions of the historic
architectural surveys for this Project. ERM conducted further architectural surveys for this
Project.
A total of 65 resources were surveyed during the current field effort. The current document
contains descriptions of 51 previously unrecorded resources associated with segments of the
Project that were not previously surveyed due to property access restrictions, and at newly
identified access roads and facilities associated with the Project. In addition to these resources,
ERM resurveyed 14 previously recorded resources in the APE that had not been surveyed as
part of this project. Two previously unrecorded secondary resources were added to two
separate previously recorded resources. Of these 65 resources, ERM recommends that 14 are
eligible for the NRHP (including one resource already listed on the NRHP) and 51 are not
eligible.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT i
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 1
MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................... 3
METHODS ................................................................................................................................ 4
BACKGROUND RESEARCH ....................................................................................... 4
FIELD SURVEY METHODS .......................................................................................... 4
NRHP EVALUATION .................................................................................................... 5
HISTORIC CONTEXT ............................................................................................................... 7
SETTLEMENT TO SOCIETY (1607–1750) ................................................................... 7
PIONEER ERA OF WESTERN VIRGINIA (16TH TO 18TH CENTURIES) ......................13
COLONY TO NATION (1751–1789) ............................................................................16
EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD (1790–1829) ..................................................................21
ANTEBELLUM PERIOD (1830–1860) .........................................................................24
CIVIL WAR (1861–1865) ..............................................................................................27
RECONSTRUCTION AND GROWTH (1866–1916) .....................................................28
WORLD WAR I TO WORLD WAR II (1917–1945) ........................................................32
THE NEW DOMINION (1946 TO THE PRESENT) .......................................................35
RESULTS ...............................................................................................................................39
PREVIOUSLY RECORDED RESOURCES IN THE VICINITY OF THE PROJECT ......39
NEW SURVEY FINDINGS ...........................................................................................39
Augusta County ...................................................................................................... 41
007-0447 ..........................................................................................................42
007-0463 ..........................................................................................................44
007-0467 ..........................................................................................................47
007-0476 ..........................................................................................................49
007-0487 ..........................................................................................................51
007-0490 ..........................................................................................................54
007-0863 ..........................................................................................................56
007-5703 ..........................................................................................................59
007-5704 .......................................................................................................... 61
007-5705 ..........................................................................................................62
007-5706 ..........................................................................................................63
007-5707 ..........................................................................................................63
007-5708 .......................................................................................................... 64
007-5709 ..........................................................................................................65
007-5710 ..........................................................................................................67
007-5711 ..........................................................................................................68
007-5712 ..........................................................................................................69
007-5713 ..........................................................................................................70
007-5714 ..........................................................................................................71
007-5715 ..........................................................................................................72

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007-5716 ..........................................................................................................73
007-5717 ..........................................................................................................74
007-5718 ..........................................................................................................75
007-5719 ..........................................................................................................75
007-5720 ..........................................................................................................77
007-5721 ..........................................................................................................77
007-5722 ..........................................................................................................78
007-5723 ..........................................................................................................79
007-5724 ..........................................................................................................80
007-5725 .......................................................................................................... 81
007-5726 ..........................................................................................................82
007-5727 ..........................................................................................................83
007-5728 .......................................................................................................... 83
007-5729 ..........................................................................................................85
007-5730 ..........................................................................................................87
007-5731 .......................................................................................................... 88
007-5732 ..........................................................................................................89
007-5733 ..........................................................................................................90
007-5734 .......................................................................................................... 91
007-5735 ..........................................................................................................92
007-5736 .......................................................................................................... 93
007-5737 ..........................................................................................................94
007-5738 ..........................................................................................................95
007-5739 ..........................................................................................................96
007-5740 .......................................................................................................... 97
Bath County ............................................................................................................ 97
008-0011 ..........................................................................................................97
008-0126 ........................................................................................................ 100
008-5008 ........................................................................................................ 103
008-5064 ........................................................................................................ 105
008-5065 ........................................................................................................ 105
008-5066 ........................................................................................................ 106
008-5067 ........................................................................................................ 107
Buckingham County .............................................................................................. 110
014-5085 ........................................................................................................ 110
014-5086 ........................................................................................................ 111
Dinwiddie County .................................................................................................. 112
026-5256 ........................................................................................................ 112
026-5257 ........................................................................................................ 113
Highland County ................................................................................................... 114
045-5088 ........................................................................................................ 114
Nelson County ...................................................................................................... 115
062-5160 ........................................................................................................ 115

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062-5223 ........................................................................................................ 118
Southampton County ............................................................................................ 119
087-5669 ........................................................................................................ 119
City of Chesapeake .............................................................................................. 120
131-5325 ........................................................................................................ 120
City of Suffolk ....................................................................................................... 121
133-0101 ......................................................................................................... 121
133-5443 ........................................................................................................ 126
133-5580 ........................................................................................................ 127
133-5581 ........................................................................................................ 127
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................. 130
REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................... 131

APPENDIX A – PROJECT MAPS DEPICTING RESOURCE LOCATIONS
APPENDIX B – RESOURCE FIGURES
APPENDIX C – RESUMES

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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. Summary of Resources in the APE ............................................................................39
Table 2. Warminster Rural Historic District Boundary Expansion Resources ......................... 118
Table 3. Sunray Agricultural Historic District Individual Properties in Project APE .................. 121

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. General Overview of the Project Corridor. ................................................................... 2
Figure 2. Thomas Cross House shown on an 1884 map of Augusta County (Hotchkiss 1884a).
43
Figure 3. 007-0447, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to Project. ..............................45
Figure 4. 007-0463, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to Project. ..............................48
Figure 5. 007-0476, proposed NRHP boundary and its relationship to the Project. ...................52
Figure 6. 007-0487, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to Project. ..............................55
Figure 7. 007-0490, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to Project. ..............................57
Figure 8. 007-0863, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to Project. ..............................60
Figure 9. 007-5728, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to the Project. ........................86
Figure 10. 008-0011, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to the Project. .................... 101
Figure 11. Topographic map surveyed in 1886–1887 showing location of 008-0126 (USGS
1901). ............................................................................................................. 103
Figure 12. 008-0126, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to the Project. .................... 104
Figure 13. Topographic map surveyed in 1886–1887 showing location of 008-5066 (USGS
1901). ............................................................................................................. 108
Figure 14. Topographic map showing location of 008-5066 in 1946 (USGS 1946). ................. 108
Figure 15. 008-5066, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to the Project. .................... 109
Figure 16. 062-5160, showing NRHP boundary expansion and relationship to the Project. .... 117
Figure 17. Sunray Agricultural Historic District NRHP boundary showing relationship to Project.
122
Figure 18. 133-0101, showing proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to the Project. ...... 125
Figure 19. 133-5443, proposed NRHP boundary and relationship to the Project. .................... 128

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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project
Phase I Historic Architectural Report
INTRODUCTION
This report presents the results that were achieved during Phase I historic architectural surveys
conducted in association with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC (Atlantic) Atlantic Coast Pipeline
(ACP) project (Project). Dominion Transmission, Inc. (DTI) will build and operate approximately
603.8 miles of natural gas transmission pipeline and associated laterals on behalf of Atlantic,
which is a joint venture consisting of subsidiaries of Dominion Resources, Duke Energy,
Piedmont Natural Gas, and Southern Company Gas. The pipeline system extends from West
Virginia to southern North Carolina, and the Project also will include access roads, meter
stations, compressor stations, and other above-ground facilities (Figure 1). This document
presents findings for the segment of the pipeline corridor in Virginia, which is 308.1 miles long,
and passes through Highland, Bath, Augusta, Nelson, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince
Edward, Nottoway, Dinwiddie, Brunswick, and Southampton counties, as well as the cities of
Suffolk and Chesapeake. It includes the 235.8 mile-long trunk line (AP-1), and three laterals
(AP-3, AP-4, and AP-5) that total 72.3 miles. The Area of Potential Effects (APE) includes the
300-foot-wide survey corridor that will encompass the construction zone and the permanent
pipeline right-of-way for the proposed pipeline, the footprints for access roads and other facilities
associated with the Project, and areas of potential indirect (visual) effects that lie within line of
sight of proposed aboveground facilities and landscape changes due to clearing of vegetation or
other impacts associated with construction. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) is the lead federal agency, and work was conducted pursuant to the requirements of
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 USC 470).
Section 106 requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings
(including the issuance of Certificates) on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National
Register of Historic Places (NRHP). DTI, as a non-federal party, is assisting the FERC in
meeting its obligations under Section 106 by preparing the necessary information, analyses,
and recommendations as authorized by 36 C.F.R. § 800.2(a)(3). Environmental Resources
Management (ERM) is conducting Phase I cultural resource investigations to gather information
on historic properties that could be affected by the Project in support of the Section 106
consultation process.
The current document contains survey results associated with segments of the Project where
access had previously been denied, and in conjunction with previously unsurveyed proposed
access roads and facilities. ERM performed public road survey for the remainder of the
previously denied areas with a viewshed to the Project corridor in Virginia, recording historic
structures that were visible from public vantage points.
Dovetail Cultural Resource Group (Dovetail) conducted initial portions of the historic
architectural surveys for this Project (Lesiuk et al. 2016, Staton 2016). ERM conducted further
architectural surveys for this Project (Voisin George et al. 2016). ERM will prepare a
supplemental report that summarizes findings from previous survey work and provides
assessment of effects discussions for all of those resources in the APE for the final Project
alignment that are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

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Figure 1. General Overview of the Project Corridor.

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