Sky Meadows State Park, situated partially within the Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic District in Fauquier and Clarke counties, has been in continuous use since the late 18th century, and the four major farms comprising the park were considered some of the best producers in the valley.  The park features the stone Federal-style Mount Bleak house, built in 1843 for merchant Abner H. Settle of the nearby community of Paris. The five-bay façade conveys formality, while the asymmetrical rear elevation with an unusual Dutch door to the dining room displays vernacular influences. At the Sky Meadows State Park’s entrance, the Wayside Cottage, built about 1780, typifies the colonial Virginia hall-and-chamber house form. Thirteen well-preserved agricultural buildings in the park date from the antebellum period through World War II. The earliest is the 1843 carriage- and corn-house near the northwest dooryard at Mount Bleak.