Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
“The Virginia Tillery Round Barn is a round barn located on County Route 738 west of White Hall in Greene County, Illinois. The barn was built in the fall of 1912 for farmer Harry C.”
Wikipedia article Virginia Tillery Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in White Hall Township. History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879; Past and Present of Greene County, Illinois, published 1905 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on White Hall Township - 37,197 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Virginia Tillery Round Barn: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patterson Township Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Purington Clay Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Valstad Quarry #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Valstad Quarry #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | White Hall Foundry | 1.9 miles | 1980 |
 | White Hall Historic District | 2.2 miles | 1987 |
 | White Hall Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 2.2 miles | 1993 |
| Hotel Roodhouse | 4.3 miles | 1995 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002536 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Greene County | All 12 listed properties in this county. |
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