Places To Visit

Overlooking Poplar Lawn Park, the William McKenney House is Petersburg's most extravagant example of the Queen Anne style. Designed by Maj. Harrison Waite, the city's leading architect of the time, the twenty-three-room mansion was completed in 1890.... Read More

Danville's Mechanicsville Historic District emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a distinctive, ethnically mixed neighborhood of tradesmen, educators, skilled workers, and laborers associated with Danville's textile and tobacco indust... Read More

Known as one of best-known covered bridges in Virginia. Spanning 204 feet across the Shenandoah River, Meem's Bottom is the last publicly maintained bridge in the state that visitors can still drive through. Although the original bridge was burned by... Read More

On the edge of a cliff, the rugged country house known as Melrose is an important expression of the castellated mode of the mid-19th-century Gothic Revival. Constructed between 1857 and 1860, the Fauquier county house was designed by Edmund George Li... Read More

Our History Melrose Caverns lies on the John Harrison, Sr. homestead, a small part of a pre-revolutionary land grant to the Harrison family. John, a brother of Thomas Harrison, the founder of Harrisonburg, discovered the Caverns in 1818.... Read More

Young visitors to Historic Kenmore can experience Hands-on History in Kenmore's new Discovery Room, full of experiential exhibits for small hands to touch, see, hear -- and even smell -- what life was like on the cusp of the Revolutionary War. ... Read More

The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (MEL) acknowledges the work and individual lives of the enslaved African Americans who built the University of Virginia and sustained daily life from its founding. The Memorial responds to a deep need to address a... Read More

Menokin was the home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife, Rebecca Tayloe Lee. At Menokin, you can experience an 18th century house like never before. You can view, touch and feel its internal make-up... Read More

A Virginia Historic Landmark, Michie Tavern is located 1/2 mile below Jefferson's Monticello and has accommodated travelers with food, drink, and lodging for more than 200 years ago. Today, attentive servers offer bountiful Southern Midday Fare. T... Read More

Nestled along Route 252 (the historic Middlebrook Road) in the Augusta County countryside south of the city of Staunton, Middlebrook is one of the oldest villages in the region. The Middlebrook Historic District’s linear plan preserves a grouping o... Read More

In 1849, the county seat of Middlesex was moved from Urbanna to Saluda. Engineer John P. Hill completed the present courthouse in 1852. During the Civil War, Federal cavalrymen stationed in Yorktown made several excursions through the county. Court c... Read More

The Middlesex County Museum & Historical Society is a journey through everyday life going back through the 19th century — and beyond. Get up close with artifacts that include prehistoric whale bones and shark teeth and Native American arrow points.... Read More

The visually prominent Kite Mansion is the finest example of the mid-20th century Colonial Revival style in the Elkton area in eastern Rockingham County. Deeply set back from U.S. 33 by a terraced lawn and framed by evergreen shrubs and trees, the tw... Read More

The Miles B. Carpenter Museum Complex in Waverly is home to the First Peanut Museum. In addition to a myriad of peanut memorabilia to encompass the complete history of the peanut, the complex also includes the home of Miles B. Carpenter, the folk art... Read More

Before Europeans improved it as the road to Kentucky, the main trail connecting the Cherokee Indians in the Great Smoky Mountains with the Shawnee in Ohio ran through Moccasin Gap on its way to Cumberland Gap. Settlers started coming through Moccasin... Read More