Bahama Road

A side addition was added in 1957.

Built in 1918, this house lost its central chimney for bathrooms - which originally were housed in a three-seater outhouse.

A wooded knoll is an attractive setting for the unusually fine tri-gable I-house built ca. 1890 for Florida Hampton Umstead, the thirteenth child and tenth son of Squire D. and Martha Umstead. Umstead, reported to have been a gentleman farmer, occupied the house as his business interests elsewhere permitted. He eventually moved into Bahama and the...

Individually-listed on the National Register, the 1850's (and likely earlier) Adolphus Umstead house once sat on 182 acres.

[Originally] adjoining the Mount Bethel Church in Bahama, a variant of the nationally popular Foursquare style with a projecting gabled bay was constructed for Norman Tilley in 1918. The dwelling has a number of Craftsman details such as a full-facade hip-roofed front porch with square porch posts, and four-over-one windows. When the church...

In the late nineteenth century, Luther Roberts constructed a single-pen gable-roofed kitchen house of four-by-four circular-sawn timbers joined by square notches and set over hewn-log sills salvaged from an earlier structure. In keeping with its intended use, the kitchen has a large fireplace with a simple post and lintel mantel and a prominent...

Andrew Jackson Roberts, donor of the land for the Mount Bethel Church in Bahama, was the first known owner of the one-pen, side-gable, hewn-log dwelling with a large fieldstone end chimney that stands on a hill overlooking Lake Michie. Built on a stone foundation, its rugged walls are joined with V-notches and chinked with mud plaster. A batten...

When Captain Addison Mangum, a cousin of United States Senator Willie P. Mangum, took over operations of the Flat River Post Office, he moved it in 1858 to this one-story two-room structure on his farm. There the post office and Mangum’s law office shared quarters with one room reportedly allocated to each purpose. The small frame building is...

Bahama Depot, 1917 Norfolk & Western Railway during a Valuation Survey N&W Historical Photograph Collection, Special Collections, Virginia Tech Bahama train depot, 1950s. (Courtesy Robby Delius)

Dedication of the then-new Bahama post office, 04.17.66. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)