The 85-acre Bacova Historic District is located in Bath County in Virginia’s Alleghany Highlands region. Bacova is a company town built beginning in 1920 by the Tide Water Hardwood Corporation, a subsidiary of the Tide Water Oil Company, after it moved to the area to access the region’s vast forests, a much-coveted resource for building construction and crafting wood barrels to store a variety of products, such as oil. In 1959, the town was purchased by Malcolm Hirsh, an industrialist who founded the Bacova Guild, Ltd., a company that made fiberglass products. Still standing in the historic district are the brick core of the Tide Water Hardwood sawmill, a post office, a former church, and a former commissary.