Places To Visit

From 1763 to 1801, the Sappony Episcopal Church was served by the Rev. Devereux Jarrett, a proponent of Methodism within the Anglican, and later Episcopal church. Jarrett was one of Virginia's few Anglican clerics to be affected by the Great Awakenin... Read More

This 298-acre preserve contains a mile of Chesapeake Bay shoreline, maritime forest, a freshwater pond, and a 0.75-mile trail through some of the highest sand dunes on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Visitors may choose from three marked trails with i... Read More

The roughly 512-acre Schoolfield Historic District encompasses the remaining buildings associated with the mill village of Schoolfield, an independent company town the textile giant Dan River Mills developed southwest of downtown Danville beginning i... Read More

In the late 19th century, Danville added the textile manufacturing element to its already robust tobacco-driven economy. As workers from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina moved to Danville, the Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mill Company too... Read More

The Schoolfield Welfare Building, located in Danville and completed in 1917, was constructed by Dan River, Inc., and built in support of the textile mill company's progressive welfare policies that aimed to better the lives of its mostly female workf... Read More

Schwartz Tavern, Blackstone's oldest building, was purchased by an early settler in Nottoway County named John Schwartz in 1790. In May 1798, Schwartz was issued a license to operate a tavern at this site. Schwartz Tavern has been altered several tim... Read More

The Scottsville Museum preserves the heritage of Scottsville, Virginia, an historic James River town. Originally called Scott's Landing, the town became the first county seat for Albemarle County in 1744. Scottsville was incorporated in 1818 at the n... Read More

The Sebrell Rural Historic District contains the remnants of Barn Tavern, which gave rise in the 18th and 19th centuries to a community of the same name. The village of Sebrell, a 20th-century rail-stop town, evolved from Barn Tavern. The remnants of... Read More

Although historical records suggest that more than eighty churches and chapels were constructed in Virginia during the 17th century, only St. Luke's Church in Isle of Wight County and the bell tower of Jamestown Church have survived from the first ce... Read More

Selwyn stands among Hanover County's Civil War battlefields and was witness to the events of the war in 1862 and in 1864. The house was used as headquarters and a hospital first by Union and then by Confederate armies in 1862 during McClellan's Penin... Read More

The Tall Ship Providence Foundation (TSPF) is a 501(c)(3) educational organization formed in August 2017 by business leaders based in Alexandria, Virginia. Our mission is to educate visitors on the role the Continental Navy played in the American Rev... Read More

Seven Springs Farm is notable for its well-preserved early 19th-century log structures that have survived through continuous occupation of the property and careful maintenance of the buildings. Representing the variety of domestic log buildings that ... Read More

Around 1836, this lot and the structure that stood on it was purchased by Fleming K. Rich. Legend has it that Rich built this house sometime thereafter for his daughter. It was said that he was "so pleased with his workmanship that he offered a prize... Read More

Shannon Airport was founded in 1950 by entrepreneur and aviation enthusiast Sidney Shannon Jr. That's also the year he began collecting and refurbishing a series of vintage aircraft, and his collection grew to be the largest private collection of its... Read More

Shannon Cemetery is highly significant for its association with ethnic history in Giles County, and for the diversity and quality of its memorial art. The cemetery occupies two adjacent ridges overlooking Big Walker Creek; one ridge contains the grav... Read More