Echols Farm

Echols Farm is an historic farm property at the junction of United States Route 501 and Virginia State Route 130, just east of Glasgow, Virginia. The more than 250-acre (100 ha) property includes a vernacular frame farmhouse dating to circa 1855, (enlarged about 1914), and a number of 20th-century outbuildings. The property, which abuts the Maury River, also includes surviving traces of the James River and Kanawha Canal, including the remains of two locks.

Echols Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Junction of U.S. Route 501 and State Route 130
Nearest city	Glasgow, Virginia
Coordinates	37°37′47″N 79°26′28″W
Area	253 acres (102 ha)
Built	1857 (1857)
NRHP reference No.	98001312[1]
Added to NRHP	October 30, 1998

Edward Echols, who established the farm,[2] was a lock operator and had other business interests related to the canal.[3] Echols also mined iron in the mountain behind the farm, helping to supply the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.[4]

The canal was in use through the 1880s, and the body of Confederate General Thomas Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson passed through the lock on the way to being buried in nearby Lexington, Virginia in 1863.[5]

Edward Echols invested heavily in Confederate war bonds and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1872, but his brother, who was president of a railroad, bailed him out of financial trouble, enabling the house to remain in the family.[6]

The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1] It is still owned by the Echols Family.