400 Old Springs Road, Princeton, WV 24739 - Mercer County

Old Springs Road Farmstead

This 26-acre farm on a scenic country road near Concord University may seem a world away from the

busy interstate expressway that lies only a mile west. Featuring a turn-of-the-century farmhouse and a

quarter-acre pond, it's ideally suited for farming, residency, or recreational development, notably due to

its proximity to I-77, which carries more than 30,000 vehicles daily. It's less than two miles from the

university, which boasts an annual student population of more than 1,500, and it's fewer than five miles

from Princeton, the seat of Mercer County and a regional commercial center with a population of more

than 5,000 residents. Given the property's potential for recreational development, other essential

associations include nearby Winterplace Ski Resort, Bluestone Lake, Camp Creek State Park and

Forest, the Washington-and-Jefferson National Forest, the Bluestone National Scenic River, Pipestem

Resort State Park, and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, which is one of the nation's

newest national parks. The farmhouse includes a traditional floor plan with two first-floor parlors and two

upstairs bedrooms to either side of a central stair hall. At the rear of the house, a modern bathroom and

combined kitchen and family room were added. Other home amenities include rear and front porches

and propane heating. A well provides water, though springs may also be present in a wooded cove near

the pond. The property is famously on Old Springs Road, which leads from Athens to Mercer Healing

Springs, one of the spa resorts that attracted wealthy vacationers to the region before the Civil War.