A handsome specimen of provincial Federal architecture, Belleview was built in the late 18th century for John Redd, a pioneer settler who served as a member of the county court and participated during the American Revolution in several frontier actio... Read More

Edgewood is an imposing 1830s manor house constructed for John Redd, on Old Stage Road in Stanleytown. During the 19th century, Old Stage Road was known as the Great Wagon Road and the Carolina Stage Road, used for travel from Salem, Virginia, throug... Read More

The Fieldale Historic District, located on the Smith River in Henry County, incorporates a company mill town established in 1916 by Marshall Field & Company to produce towels for the Marshall Field's Department Store. Situated on a 1,800-acre tract o... Read More

In 1916, Marshall Field and Company, of the Chicago Marshall Field Department Store, purchased 1841 acres of land surrounded by the Smith River. Marshall Field had long purchased items to sell in his store and decided to build his own manufacturing f... Read More

Grassdale Farm, located in the southwest Henry County community of Spencer, is notable for its many surviving 19th- and early 20th-century structures. They include the stylish plantation house and numerous dependencies, especially a log slave dwellin... Read More

Ingleside is a late Federal-style dwelling located on rolling farmland in western Amelia County. The house is noteworthy for its highly imaginative, classically-inspired architectural detailing which appears on its chimneypieces and the two-and-one-h... Read More

The Historic Henry County Courthouse now houses the Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center and Museum in the portion of the building that was formerly the Henry County Circuit Court Clerk�s Office. Exhibits on local and regional history change reg... Read More

The Old Turner Place is located just west of the small village of Henry on a creek called Larkin's Branch. A two-story log house with tall sandstone chimneys and a log smokehouse, both dating to the late-18th or early-19th centuries, are on the prope... Read More

For the heritage traveler seeking former homesites of Colonial Patriots, Henry County was briefly the residence of none other than Patrick Henry - its namesake. While his stay was brief, 1779-1784, his legacy is permanent in the form of a large 10-fo... Read More

The R. L. Stone House overlooks downtown Bassett, near Martinsville, and the Bassett furniture complex, the company that Stone co-founded. He purchased the Henry County land for the home in 1930, the same year that Bassett Furniture Company and its s... Read More

Rock Run School, a one-story frame building, once served a rural African American community in Henry County from the early 1880s through the mid-20th century. The building is a rare example from the post-Reconstruction era of both a rural school as w... Read More

Consolidated schools such as the Spencer-Penn School in Henry County fulfilled important roles in the educational and civic life of rural communities in Virginia for generations of students and their families. Accounts of student and community life a... Read More

Built 1929-31 after the plans of Leland McBroom of the Des Moines, Iowa firm of Tinsley and McBroom, Stoneleigh is an impressive example of the Tudor Revival Style. It was commissioned by industrialist Thomas B. Stanley, later governor of Virginia. T... Read More

Virginia Home, constructed in 1920, was directly associated with the labor history of Fieldale, a mill and company town in Henry County, built at the close of World War I by the Marshall Field Company for the manufacture and worldwide distribution of... Read More