Back Creek Farm is a product of Southwest Virginia's second generation of European settlement. Nestled at the foot of Cloyd's Mountain in Pulaski County, the farm was established by Joseph Cloyd, whose pioneer parents were killed during a conflict wi... Read More

While searching for his lost brother who fought in the French-Indian War, James Mayo Hoge instead found his true love, Elizabeth Howe, and together they built a home on land they called Hayfield (now Belle-Hampton) in 1767. James Mayo Hoge fought cou... Read More

From 1894 to 1966, the Calfee Training School educated African American children in Pulaski, VA. Faced with severe underfunding from Jim Crow segregation, the Calfee Training School became a community, helping children and their families reach their ... Read More

Designed by James C. Lombard and Co. of Washington D.C., and opened in 1921, the Dalton Theatre followed the prototype theater design of Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, in which the theater section is fronted by an office building. It... Read More

The Pulaski County town of Dublin came into being in 1854 when the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad established a depot where the rail line crossed the Giles and Pulaski Turnpike. The settlement became a center of commerce and transportation. As such,... Read More

The Fairview District Home is an extension of the almshouse system in Virginia, a tradition that extended back to 18th-century care for indigent or infirm adults and children. In 1908, the newly formed State Board of Charities and Corrections found 1... Read More

The Haven B. Howe House is a fine example of a high-style, Reconstruction-era farmhouse, constructed during the 1870s from materials available on the property and in the region. Featuring porch supports of ornamental wrought iron, the house combines ... Read More

Ingles Ferry was started by William Ingles in 1762 when he obtained a license to operate a ferryboat across the New River. Ingles was assisted by his brother-in-law John Draper. Over the ferry moved many of the settlers taking up land in Kentucky and... Read More

A relic of the early settlement of Pulaski County's uplands, the John Hoge House is one of the regions's very few dated log structures. The date 1800 is carved into an original stone chimney. The first owner of the house is not known; however, in 181... Read More

In existence by 1769, the New Dublin Presbyterian Church is the oldest surviving Presbyterian congregation in Southwest Virginia. The current church building, built in 1875, is located just over a mile north of the center of the town of Dublin in Pul... Read More

The community, founded in 1810, was the Pulaski County seat through much of the 1800s. The district, a national historic landmark, encircles the entire community and contains 26 of the original log or wooden buildings including an inn which served a... Read More

Spurred by the construction of the Norfolk and Western Railway line, the town of Pulaski's downtown served as the late-19th century industrial and commercial center of Pulaski County. The relocation of the county seat to Pulaski in 1895 cemented the ... Read More

An architectural wonder and National Registry Home; Rockwood Manor was built with a flare for class in 1875 and is located near Radford and Virginia Tech. Extra large windows set into bays that lend light to the twelve foot ceiling; seventeen firepl... Read More

Though architecturally noteworthy as an elegantly simple expression of country Greek Revival design, the Snowville Christian Church in Pulaski County is best known for its association with Chester Bullard (1809-1893), a charismatic religious leader. ... Read More

The tiny community of Snowville, on the banks of the Little River in the scenic eastern section of Pulaski County, was founded in the 1820s by Asiel Snow, an immigrant from New England. By the 1850s the village had become a small manufacturing center... Read More

Spring Dale, near Dublin in Pulaski County, is an elegant brick mansion built in 1856-1857 for David Shall McGavock, one of the county's most prominent antebellum farmers. The house is two stories high with a full basement and was designed in a late ... Read More

Located in the Historic District of Newbern, the Wilderness Road Regional Museum was once the home of Revolutionary War Veteran Adam Hance. Following the Revolution, Hance planned a new village along the Great Wagon Road that ran through his property... Read More