May 8, 2013
Brookside Historic District Enters the National Register
The 139-acre Brookside Historic District near Aurora was entered in the National Register of Historic Places. The district connects the surviving Brookside resort properties—including Gaymont, cottages, the farm, and Red Horse Tavern—with Cathedral State Park and the history of transportation and mountain tourism along U.S. Route 50.
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West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, National Register list for Preston County; Brookside Historic District nomination
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