Places To Visit

A long-standing tradition maintains that Brown's Ferry was the birthplace of William Mahone (1826-1895), the colorful Confederate general who achieved fame during the 1864 siege of Petersburg. Known as the "Hero of the Crater," Mahone closed the gap ... Read More

On a remote edge of the Eastern Shore's broad oceanside marshes in Northampton County is the surprisingly urbane Federal-style residence of Brownsville, built in 1806 for John Upshur. Upshur's ancestor John Browne, from whom the property derives its ... Read More

The early movement to provide women access to higher education is symbolized in the cluster of buildings that survive in Buckingham County from the Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute, the first chartered college for women in Virginia. Opened in 1... Read More

Buckshoal Farm was the birthplace and favorite residence of William M. Tuck (1896-1983), one of Virginia's most popular 20th-century governors. Elected in 1945, his term is remembered for his effect on labor-management relationships. He was instrumen... Read More

Buena Vista Colored School stands today as a little-altered brick building for the segregated education of African American students. One room was constructed in 1914 on land owned by First Baptist Church (African American), and an almost identical r... Read More

Installed in the devastating wake of Hurricane Camille on August 19, 1969 - claiming many local lives and destroying most all downtown businesses - the flood wall was installed for future protection along the Maury River, which bisects Rockbridge Cou... Read More

This charming little building is one of Culpeper's oldest homes, a reminder of Culpeper's Colonial era.... Read More

This simple vernacular hostelry is a reminder of a flourishing period in the area, when taverns were the scene of much local socializing and political activity. Located at a rural crossroads on the Nottoway/Prince Edward County line, the tavern foste... Read More

The mid-1920s Danville Car No. 66 ended its transportation duties in 1938 when that city began converting to bus service. Salvaged from the scrappers, the trolley car was converted into a diner by the resourceful Burnett brothers, Henry, Frank, and J... Read More

Burnt Quarter is a historic plantation house in Dinwiddie County. Built in stages starting in 1750, the house is a two story structure with a hipped roof and a central section flanked by 1% story wings. It is believed that the property on which the h... Read More

The home was built by the Burwell family of the Tidewater area in 1798. William A. Burwell served as Secretary to Thomas Jefferson. In 1850 the estate was sold to Thomas J. Holland and has remained in the Holland family since that time, earning th... Read More

A National Register Historical Landmark and one of the oldest, most original operational grist mills in the country located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. In the early 1780s, Gen. Daniel Morgan, a true Revolutionary War hero, joined efforts w... Read More

The historic Bush Mill takes you back to a time when people lived simpler lives, when millwrights and craftsmen used Scott County's abundant natural resources - limestone, wood, water and hilly terrain - to build overshot, water-powered grist mills w... Read More

According to local tradition, the first court meeting for newly formed Greensville County occurred in Butts Tavern two blocks east on 22 Feb. 1781. Built about 1770 at the intersection of Fort Christianna and Halifax Roads for William Edwards, the ta... Read More

The C.P. Jones House and Law Office, located in the town of Monterey in Highland County, is an evolved dwelling with Victorian elements that has at its core a two-story log structure built around 1850. The log building may have functioned as the firs... Read More