Places To Visit

Near this spot in 1764, Shawnee Indians killed John Tremble (Trimble) in the last such event in Augusta County. During the preceding decade, a series of conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers occurred along the western frontier of t... Read More

Laurel Hill is located in the southwestern part of Patrick County within sight of the boundary line of North Carolina and Virginia. The seventy-five-acre site, owned by the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust, is open to the public dawn to du... Read More

Laurel Meadow's dwelling house is a model example of the eastern Virginia vernacular farmhouse of the first half of the 19th century. Its dormered gable roof, hall/parlor plan, and asymmetrical facade are all features associated with the building typ... Read More

The Town of Glade Spring was laid out in 1794. The Lee County Historical Society promotes the study and preservation of the history of Lee County. Located in the Old Friendship Baptist Church Building approximately 4 miles west of the county seat at ... Read More

Lee Hall Depot was erected circa 1881 on the Chesapeake & Ohio rail line. After construction, the village of Lee Hall rapidly developed around the depot. The wooden building consists of a two-story central section flanked by single-story wings. The S... Read More

Lee Hall Mansion is an Italianate residence built in 1859 by prominent planter, Richard Decatur Lee, for his family. Only three years after the house's completion, the Lees fled their home as the Peninsula became one of the first battlegrounds of the... Read More

The Lee-Fendall House Museum is a historic house museum located in Old Town Alexandria. Built in 1785, it has been home to members of the Lee family, enslaved people and domestic servants, convalescing Union soldiers, the prominent Downham family, an... Read More

Known for being one of the best preserved and most picturesque downtowns in Virginia, Downtown Leesburg is your everyday destination: historic sites and museums, vibrant culinary scene, large selection of breweries, award-winning wineries, boutiques... Read More

This prehistoric site along the Roanoke River contains well-preserved archaeological material dating from the Late Woodland period. The site is characterized by high integrity of cultural features including midden, bone and seed remains, pottery shar... Read More

Initially constructed in 1749 by John Lewis and his son, Fielding, George Washington's brother-in-law, the Lewis Store is a significant example of Georgian Commercial architecture and one of the oldest urban retail buildings in the United States. The... Read More

In 1825 Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and her husband William James Weir built the house that would become known as Liberia. On the eve of the Civil War the plantation had grown into one of the largest and most successful in western Prince William Co... Read More

The Library of Virginia is open to the public 6 days a week and features special collections including ledgers of plantation owners, petitions of slaves and free blacks, Indian treaties, and Virginia's original copy of the United States Bill of Right... Read More

President Abraham Lincoln's great-grandfather John Lincoln moved from Pennsylvania and settled in the Linville Creek area of Rockingham County in 1768. Although John's eldest son, Abraham, grandfather of the president, migrated to Kentucky, a younger... Read More

Named for nearby Little Cherrystone Creek, this Pittsylvania County farm has a dwelling with two distinct and contrasting sections of exceptional regional importance. Its one-story frame wing was probably standing before Thomas Hill Wooding acquired ... Read More

Adorning a rugged rockface, these pictographs in Nottoway County belong to a class of archaeological resources whose rarity makes them significant at the national level. The Little Mountain Pictograph Site features a single human hand print, a possib... Read More