Bacon's Castle is the oldest brick dwelling in North America and was built for Arthur Allen and his family in 1665. Originally known as Allen's Brick House, it earned the moniker "Bacon's Castle" in 1676 when several of Nathaniel Bacon's men occupied... Read More

The museum's mission is to show agriculture's past, present and future. Four buildings house early American farm and forestry tools and equipment, including antique tractors and a working 1930s sawmill. Museum staffers care for a cow, rabbit, donk... Read More

Erected before 1820 by the Warren family and last used as a private residence by the Enos family, this Surry County homestead is the sort of house occupied by middling farmers of the early Republican era in Southside Virginia. A distinguishing aspect... 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

Smith's Fort Plantation, located on the site of Captain John Smith's planned 'New Fort', sits nestled in Surry County on the land given by Chief Powhatan as a dowry for his daughter, Pocahontas, upon her marriage to John Rolfe. The manor house, built... Read More

Surry County is unique in the South to have preserved and protected original county legal records since its establishment in 1652; avoiding destruction from the British in the American Revolution and the Union Army during the Civil War. Records are a... Read More