Botetourt County Real Estate

Fine Botetourt County Homes For Sale

Chenault House - Built be descendants of one of lafayette's generals. The house is brick and looks at the james river off in the distance and is surrounded by mountains. Conveniently close to town and interstate 81.3 bedrooms, 3/1 baths, List Price $349,000

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Quality built Cape Cod on 15+ acres with stream, pond, and spring. Large front porch w/Blue Ridge Parkway views. Rear screen porch overlooking bold stream. Gas log FP, whirlpool tub, HW and C. Tile flooring, Granite tile Counter tops, 5 minutes from I81 and 6 miles S of Buchanan. Kick back & enjoy the country. 3 bedrooms, 2/0 baths, List Price $375,000

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Secluded Setting. One level living area. Bring your horses. Spring fed pond, beautiful mountain views, covenient to Roanoke or Lexington. Stone retaining wall, paved driveway, new HVAC. 3 bedrooms, 2/0 baths, List Price $384,000

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The grandkids beckon & so owners of this almost new dream home are heading North. Beautiful floor plan provides 1st level living with upstairs BR, BA, & Den for guests. Huge heated & AC'd unfinished walkout bsmnt provides loads of storage or could be a future rec room or privacy apt. Across the rd. from Jefferson National Forest. 4 bedrooms, 3/0 baths, List Price $423,000

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Santillane Farm! Br-living room w/fireplace upstairs adjoins bedroom & full bath, currently a suite, could be additional 6th bedroom/Formal living, dining rooms/entrance foyer/large rooms/huge barn/milk house/lg equip-parking building/plus more land, etc available/potential for B&B, resturant, antique shop, etc. 6 bedrooms, 3/2 baths, List Price $530,000

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Extra wide driveway sweeps through acres of woods revealing a 3-story custom built cabin overlooking the James River. Hardie plank, Trex decking, hand hewn beams, two field stone Fireplaces, walnut floors, granite countertops, Anderson windows, and doors, tiled baths. Only the best materials used in construction of this one of a kind getaway.4 bedrooms, 4/0 baths, List Price $749,000

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Extremely well kept & upgraded 1 1/2 story brick home w/ huge rooms (hrdwood floors, walnut panelled LR, tiled baths). Incredible views in all directions. Lush pastures punctuated w/ tall oaks & poplars fronting 3 separate country roads. Perfect horse property. 3 barns. 23 min to Lexington & 30 min to Roanoke.4 bedrooms, 2/2 baths, List Price $1,999,000

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Botetourt County Land For Sale

Privacy, privacy, privacy in addition to being a hunter's heaven. Outstanding weekend getaway or full time retreat yet only minutes to Buchanan and within 15 miles of Lexington and 35 miles from Roanoke. One of a kind views, miles and miles of rolling hills and mountains from several home sites on this magnificent property. 1600 of State Maintained Road Frontage. 162.11+/- Acres, List Price $499,950

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Botetourt County Farms For Sale

Eagle Rock Elementary, Botetourt Academy, James River HS. DEER RUN is an outstanding contemporary Southland log home that offers a discriminating buyer seclusion, views, open & wooded land to commune with nature. Large expansive rooms with a southwestern feel. You won't feel fenced in here!3 bedrooms, 2/0 baths, List Price $699,000

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Pristine Equestrian Estate featuring 9 stall barn, 145×180 all-weather arena, 16.66 acres of pasture fenced and cross-fenced, unparalelled views, and Exquisite English Tudor home with over $80,000 in recent upgrades. New features incl. hand-scraped walnut floors, new kitchen w/granite and stainless appliances. So much more.5 bedrooms, 3/1 baths, List Price $1,295,000

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Botetourt County

 Botetourt County was the first area in the Valley to be clearly defined and early in our history included not only this part of Virginia, but also most of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

This historic Town of Fincastle has been the county seat of Botetourt County since 1770.

The modern Botetourt County is steeped in history and for many years, maintained its heritage of being mostly a county of rich farmlands, fields and pastures.

In the 1980's, however, the new home market discovered Botetourt County and since that time a number of lovely residential neighborhoods have sprung up all over the county and a growing number of businesses and industries are located there.

Newcomers will be delighted with this area's real estate market. Home prices consistently rank lower than the national median, and the Valley offers a variety of attractive neighborhoods.

Older neighborhoods have beautifully maintained Colonial and Victorian style homes in historic settings.

Contemporary designs with all the latest features can be found in tasteful developments throughout the valley.

Throughout Botetourt County subdivisions are popping up in areas once occupied solely by farm land and orchards.

The Daleville area of Botetourt County in particular has been described as "one of the Roanoke Valley's fastest growing residential areas."

For better or worse, growth is expected to continue.

Last fall, a Kroger store and an upscale clothing shop opened up in the Daleville area.

The plaza continues to expand with a coffee shop and a state liquor store on the way. North of the suburbanization close to Roanoke lie the towns of Eagle Rock and Buchanan.

Some of the most scenic stretches of the James River flow through these two small towns.

Both boast historic buildings, churches and homes.

Many have been remodeled while others show signs of age.

The bridge that once connected the bustling U.S. 220 with the town of Eagle Rock closed a couple of years ago.

That closing added 10 minutes to the commute for Eagle Rock residents who drive to Roanoke. There's a new bridge in the works and many residents hope this will draw travelers into town to see its historic lime kilns.

The business area of Eagle Rock is far from bustling with just a handful of businesses including a post office, a bank and a restaurant.

Buchanan, on the other hand, has invested significant funds in revitalization in recent years.

The downtown area offers a coffee shop, stores and restaurants that range from fast food to fancy.

Landmarks: Historic Fincastle off U.S. 220 offers historic churches, 19th century houses and 18th century cabins.

Roaring Run recreation area off Virginia 615 boasts a picnic area, spots for fishing, a historic furnace and a beautiful hike to an actual waterfall.

20th-century notable: Charles Follis, the first black professional football player in America, was born in Botetourt County.

Today, Botetourt County--the Southern gateway to the Shenandoah Valley--lies in a broad valley, which was once known as the Fincastle Valley, between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains.

 Its blue skies and clean air cover an ocean of farms, orchards, small towns, villages and quiet residential developments.

Located in Western Virginia near Roanoke, Botetourt is a scenic, historic county offering all the advantages of small-town and rural life plus the proximity to Western Virginia's largest city and its medical, economic and cultural contributions.

Here, much of the area's history has been preserved for future generations.

Botetourt County History

Botetourt County, founded in 1770, is historically unique.

It was initially formed from the counties of Augusta and Rockbridge and it derived its name from Lord Botetourt, who was the Governor of Virginia.

After the Revolutionary War, the county's jurisdiction was extended to the Mississippi River, encompassing what is now West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and part of Illinois.

 Today, Botetourt County--the Southern gateway to the Shenandoah Valley--lies in a broad valley which was once known as the Fincastle Valley, between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains.

 Located in Western Virginia near Roanoke, Botetourt is a scenic, historic county offering all the advantages of small-town and rural life plus the proximity to Western Virginia's largest city and its medical, economic and cultural contributions.

 Fincastle was founded in 1772 and named after Lord Fincastle, son of Lord Dunmore, Virginia's last royal governor.

Fincastle, located 25 miles north of Roanoke on U.S.Highway 220, was established in 1770.

Incorporated in 1772, today the quiet and quaint village of about 325 residents is a virtual museum of American architecture from the late 1770's through the 20th century.

The town began as and remains the seat of Botetourt County.

Fincastle was the governmental center of a vast tract of land that once included the present state of Kentucky and much of what is now West virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and part of Wisconsin.

George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and other prominent Virginians either appeared in Fincastle or sent their agents to lay claim to tracts of wilderness lands.

Thousands of English, German and Scots-Irish pioneers passed through on their way down the great Valley Road that traversed the famed Shenandoah Valley to settle the western frontier county.

Combining the talents of German craftsmen and Scots-Irish merchants and lawyers, early Fincastle residents built a town of well-proportioned houses and public buildings, a substantial number of which still survive.

Court House Square contains the Jeffersonian Court House, a Victorian-style jail and the old Western Hotel.

Three antebellum and two late 19th century churches still serve their congregations.

The narrow streets are lined with a variety of architectural styles.

Houses of early smiths, wagon makers, and saddlers were usually built of logs and covered with clapboard and shingles.

Commercial establishments and houses of the more wealthy were built of brick.

The surrounding countryside is also rich in frontier architecture and historic lore.

Included are Breckinridge Mill near Fincastle, Callie Furnace near Glen Wilton, Nininger's Mill (Tinker Mill) in Daleville, Phoenix Bridge near Eagle Rock, Prospect Hill near Fincastle, Roaring Run Furnace at Roaring Run, Santillane in Fincastle, Wiloma near Fincastle, Wilson Warehouse in Buchanan and archaeological sites at Bessemer near Eagle Rock and at Looney Mill Creek near Buchanan.

Locks, canal abutments and tunnels from the James River and Kanawha Canal offer a look at the country's early mode of transportation.

 In Buchanan, the only swinging bridge that crosses the James River is on abutments that date back 150 years.

Historical markers abound throughout the county, providing a glimpse of the past.

One in Fincastle notes that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed from this frontier town when they were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

Other markers point to frontier forts and sites of Indian raids.

Buchanan Town History

From its earliest development, the Town of Buchanan, Virginia was a principal crossing of the James River via the "Great Valley Road" and other regional transportation networks.

As an early transportation-oriented community, the Town included taverns and ordinares, stables, blacksmith shops, wagon and carriage makers, general merchandise stores to service travelers, teamsters, and producers of goods being sent to external markets from the region.

Transportation routes and changes in modes of transportation have had primary influence on Buchanan's history.

People settled in Buchanan because of the Town's location at a major intersection of transportation routes.

Commercial and manufacturing enterprises located there because of the Town's advantageous location for transport of raw materials, goods and products.

Changes in means of transportation shaped the Town's periods of growth in commerce and manufacturing.

Since the 1740's the area now encompassed by the Town of Buchanan has always been distinguished as the point of intersection between two principal transportation corridors: the great northeast-southwest overland route west of the Blue Ridge Mountains between Pennsylvania and the old Upland south; and the James River, the principal river system of central Virginia that provides and east-west route for transport of goods from Mountain and Valley Region, through the Piedmont, to the Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay.

In the 1740's the earliest trace of the Great Road from Philadelphia to western Virginia first crossed the James River at Looney's Ferry, whose approximate location is marked with an historic highway marker along route 11 west of downtown.

Frontier colonial leader and land speculator James Patton obtained lands at the Great Valley Road crossing of the James River in the mid-1740's.

His heirs the Buchanans, Boyds and Andersons acquired title to those lands and settled there over the next three decades.

William Anderson laid out the town of Pattonsburg on the north side of the James River in 1788 while James Boyd laid out the Town of Buchanan on the south side of the James across from Pattonsburg in 1811.

Plats of Buchanan in 1811 and Pattonsburg in 1818 established a grid of streets and enumerated lots that conform in large part with the current tax maps. 

Water transport on the James River was improved from Buchanan to Tidewater by 1807 and the two towns became centers for processing agricultural products from southwestern Virginia for transport to Richmond and the Chesapeake.

The Virginia General Assembly in 1819 acted to establish warehouses for inspection of tobacco and flour in both towns.

River traffic increased in the 1830's with internal improvements that brought a better road system to Buchanan from western Virginia.

By the mid-1830's internal improvements resulted in completion of the Cumberland Gap Turnpike from the Kentucky border to central Botetourt County.

By the 1840's Buchanan's buildings included the John Wilson warehouse, store and residence, the Botetourt Hotel and the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, all brick structures which still stand today.

By 1851 the James River and Kanawha Canal was completed from Richmond to Buchanan.

At this time the two towns experienced a boom in commercial and artisan activity during the decade before the Civil War.

During the Civil War Buchanan served as an important Confederate supply depot for shipment of agricultural produce and pig iron to Richmond via the James River and Kanawha Canal.

Federal General David Hunter marched through Pattonsburg and Buchanan on June 13, 1864 on his ill-fated raid of Lynchburg.

After the Civil War commerce and manufacturing declined in Buchanan and Pattonsburg.

Numbers of town merchants and artisans fell sharply as canal traffic on the James River from Buchanan to Lynchburg was eclipsed by rail traffic from Salem to Lynchburg.

Steel rail transportation came to the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg in the early 1880's, the time when Buchanan incorporated Pattonsburg into its Town limits.

Industrial growth and revival of commerce followed completion of the Norfolk and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio lines through town because the new railroads hauled heavy freight to distant markets faster and at a lower cost than earlier wagons and canal boats.

The Continental Can Company and the Virginia Can Company established significant manufacturing operations in Buchanan after 1903.

The Virginia Can Company employed at least 38 employees in 1906 and in 1910 owned buildings valued at $16,000 on a Norfolk and Western track siding just east of the original Town limits.

By 1920 railroad employees far outnumbered self-employed artisans.

By World War I industrial manufacturing had replaced pre-Civil War patterns of production by skilled craftsmen.

Industrial employment in Buchanan increased between 1920 and 1940 with limestone and bone product operations employing over 400 workers, many of whom commuted to town by automobile on newly improved hard surface roads.

On the eve of World War II, Buchanan's population had grown to 870 inhabitants and Land Books for the Town recorded 70 more lots with buildings than in 1910.

Industrial employment continued to provide for Buchanan residents during and after World War II.

Hafleigh and Co. converted to military production during the war and sold out to Groendyke Manufacturing Co. in 1965, an operation that by 1980 employed 125 workers in the manufacture of silicone and rubber products.

The James River Limestone Company employed 125 workers in 1980.

Buchanan's textile industry employed between 130 and 200 workers from the 1950's through the 1970's.

Since 1960 truck traffic on Interstate 81, the latest upgrade of the great overland route west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, shipped precut and finished garments to and from Buchanan.

Following recent annexations, Buchanan's population has grown to over 1,200 inhabitants.

Today, after decades of physical and economic decline, the Town of Buchanan has become a leader within the area for economic development within the context of Historic Preservation.

This contemporary practice of development uses historic preservation as a catalyst for growth, promoting quality growth which respects the community's traditional land use development patterns.

After six years of concentrated downtown revitalization activities following the "Main Street Principles," and 3.5 million dollars of private sector investment, downtown has once again become host to a variety of businesses and residences proudly representing the community's dreams and aspirations.

 

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