The Bailey Log House

 
The Bailey Log House Project Committee, under the auspices of the Graham Historical Society, is currently in the process of reconstructing the approximately 150 year old Bailey Log House, which is one of the earliest surviving structures built in the Bluefield area.  The tentative date for completion of the project is the summer of 2007.

The Bailey Log House Project includes reconstructing the two-story Log House on Walnut St. across from the old Town Hall site. It will be established  as a visible historic landmark that will be open to the public, will serve as an educational resource and a place to host community events and projects.

The Bailey family first arrived in what is now Tazewell County more than 230 years ago when Richard Peyton Bailey Sr received a warrant for land along the Bluestone River on October 15, 1770. Bailey was a scout and spy for the American army against the British and Indians in this part of Virginia. Records show that by 1790, Bailey and John Goolman Davidson, had built log houses for their families and a fort beside what is known as Bailey Springs. This location today is just behind the Scott & Stringfellow office building at 1934 Leatherwood Lane.  To read this entire article, click here.
 
The Bailey family has stood in four locations:
1-- built circa 1850 on the Bluefield, WV, side in present day Oakhurst section. 
2-- in early 1920's, it was taken apart and re-built on the Bluefield College campus.  
3-- In the 1960's, when the college built their athletic dome building, the cabin was again relocated to Airport Rd, and used as a gift shop. 
4-- In 2006, it was again disassembled, and will be rebuilt in downtown Bluefield, VA, above the new Jack Asbury Park.  The logs are temporarily stacked in the Sanders House Center back yard awaiting the raising of funds.
 

Additional Photographs of the Bailey Log House Re-Construction
 


 

 

 

 

 

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