Constructed about 1882, the Wytheville Training School was built on land where a Freedmen's school once stood, shortly after the freedom of the slaves between 1865 and 66. Sometime between 1880 and 1882, the Freedmen's school was razed and a new chur... Read More

Deeply rooted in history, East End Cemetery and St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery are two of the oldest cemeteries in the area and offer a wealth of information about Wytheville and the country's earliest families. The grounds are the final resting... Read More

Bolling Block - 115, 145, 155, 165 E. Main Street - The birthplace of former First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson consists of three two-story units with a shared single parapeted front and a false third story. History dictates that the structure was ... Read More

For more than a decade The Mansion at Fort Chiswell has been lovingly restored. Now this private residence, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and as a Virginia State Historic Landmark, is ready to be shared with you. From the ... Read More

The notable history of Fort Chiswell began in 1760 when over 650 soldiers were stationed at the fort during the French and Indian War. Important Cherokee leaders converged at the fort for peace talks and trade, establishing marks on land that would s... Read More

The Great Lakes to Florida Highway Museum opened August 20, 2011. The third museum owned and operated by the Town of Wytheville offers visitors a chance to return to the days when the Great Lakes to Florida Highway (Route 21) was the main route from ... Read More

The home of Wytheville's first resident physician, the Haller-Gibboney Rock House has played a significant role in Wytheville's history since its construction in 1823. Dr. John Haller served his community as a country doctor, county coroner and deleg... Read More

The home of Wytheville's first resident physician, the Haller-Gibboney Rock House has played a significant role in Wytheville's history since its construction in 1823. Dr. John Haller served his community as a country doctor, county coroner and deleg... Read More

Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery is a historic Lutheran cemetery and national historic district located near Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia. The cemetery includes approximately about 50 early Germanic sandstone monuments dating from 1800 to 1850. ... Read More

Historic Locust Hill Manor is a Federalist manor built with local timber and kiln fire brick in 1850. Originally, the manor served as a self-sustaining farm for North Carolina legislator Alfred Cleon Moore, and now the manor is available to the publ... Read More

The oldest officer in Marshall's army and one of General Lee's oldest colonels at the start of the war, Alfred Cleon Moore, the first to dwell in the Historic Locust Hill Manor, was a prominent Wythe County attorney and gentleman farmer, while his wi... Read More

Constructed of huge cedar and oak logs, this structure and next few on this tour are believed to be some of the oldest buildings in Wytheville. The recorded deeds for the property go back to 1817 when John Davis first bought the lot from the Trustees... Read More

The home of Squire David Graham, and later his son, Major David Pierce Graham, was built in stages beginning in 1830. The Grahams were influential residents in Wythe County owing to their wealth, the labor of slaves, and ownership of a dozen iron for... Read More

New River Trail State Park is a 57.7-mile rail trail and state park located entirely in southwest Virginia, extending from the trail's northeastern terminus in Pulaski to its southern terminus in Galax, with a 5.5-mile spur from Fries Junction on the... Read More

The process of this building's construction is as unusual as its shape. The construction of the home was begun about 1870 by Dr. Henry Quincy Adams Bowyer. It was sold to Rev. Dexter A. Snow in 1874 whom had the construction completed. This octagon m... Read More

The Rural Retreat Depot is a historic railroad station located at 105 Railroad Avenue in Rural Retreat, Virginia. Built c. 1870, it is one of the oldest railroad stations in Southwest Virginia, and one of only two to survive the Reconstruction Era. I... 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

The Jackson Ferry Shot Tower is a 75-foot-tall tower used for manufacturing lead shot located in Wythe County, Virginia and now adjacent to the New River Trail State Park, a lineal rail trail park connecting the historic towns of Pulaski and Galax, V... Read More

Overlooking the New River, Shot Tower was built more than 200 years ago to make ammunition for the firearms of the early settlers. Lead from the nearby Austinville Mines was melted in a kettle atop the 75-foot tower and poured through a sieve, fallin... Read More

The oldest Episcopal Church in Virginia west of the Roanoke Valley, the cornerstone for St. John’s was laid in October 1852. Abigail Jouett McGavock began to solicit funds for its construction as early as 1846. The completed building was consecrated ... Read More

Formally organized in 1799, the congregation came into being because of the migration of German settlers into the western part of Wythe County following the Revolutionary War. George Daniel Flohr (Father Flohr) was the first pastor of the church and ... Read More

St. Paul Lutheran Church, located in the western portion of Wythe County, has generally been accepted as the first Lutheran congregation in what is now Wythe County. The land entry records show that the land was settled in 1776 and that a meeting hou... Read More

Born November 3, 1793, in what is now Austinville, Virginia, Stephen Fuller Austin was the second child of Moses Austin and Mary Brown Austin. Moses, born in 1761, was originally from Connecticut. He and his brother moved to eastern Wythe County in ... Read More

Millions of Americans are familiar with famed Texan Stephen F. Austin, the man who secured his place in history as the "Father of Texas." Most, however, are unaware that the "Father of Texas" not only hails from the Old Dominion, but from the Blue Ri... Read More

Built around 1850, this two-story log structure was owned by W.F. Slater, a partner in the Slater & Moyers corn and flour mill. It is believed to have been a boarding house in the late 1800s owned by Mary Crockett. Prior to that, it may have been lea... Read More

The Thomas J. Boyd Museum opened in December 1983. Located beside the Haller-Gibboney Rock House, the Boyd Museum is named for Thomas Jefferson Boyd who is known as the "Father of Wytheville." He was an attorney, Town mayor, surveyor, hotel builder a... Read More

The Boyd Museum provides an opportunity to learn about the history of the people and places of Wythe County. The museum's collection includes Wytheville's first fire truck, c-1855, early farming equipment and tools, military uniforms, Civil War displ... Read More

In 1940, West End Cemetery was established on 23 acres of property located off West Lee Highway. Later in 1957, the Town of Wytheville took over its operation and maintenance. The cemetery is divided into eight sections with additional areas reserved... Read More

The nine-acre Homestead includes the decorative arts museum (located in the late R. Cecil and Seawillow Jackson family home), smoke house, Henry Umberger cabin, spring house, kitchen house, log barn and blacksmith, gunsmith and woodworking shops. The... Read More

Open 9-5, seven days a week (with the exception of major holidays). Come in and browse through more than 400 brochures and information on local, regional, state and adjoining states attractions, dining, lodging, etc. Soak up the peaceful setting on... Read More

The Wytheville Historic District is in the center of Wytheville, an incorporated town of slightly over 8,000 population located in Wythe County, Virginia. The approximately 170-acre district is located between 2,260' and 2,320' in elevation and is ch... Read More

Zion is a historic Evangelical Lutheran cemetery and national historic district located near Speedwell, Wythe County, Virginia. The cemetery includes approximately 250–300 total gravestones. Forty-two of the stones have dates ranging from the 1790s t... Read More