Places To Visit

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

On a carefully chosen site with the Blue Ridge Mountains as backdrop, Locust Grove was built ca. 1798 for Isaac Davis, Jr. (1754-1835), a successful planter, land speculator, and a slave owner, who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and held v... Read More

Craftsman Enoch Johnson built Locust Hill, a two-and-a-half-story Swiss Gothic-style Victorian cottage, for Samuel Marion Stone between 1859 and 1861. Its steeply pitched roof incorporates two central chimneys and four gables decorated in ornamental ... 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

Long Branch Historic House and Farm is an 1811 historic house located on 400 acres in Boyce, Virginia, about one hour and a half from the Washington, D.C. area. Long Branch survived the Civil War, the Reconstruction era, the Great Depression, and two... Read More

Built circa 1845 for its original owner, Cyrus Rhodes, a prosperous farmer, Long Meadow is a Greek Revival house in Rockingham County. The farm is located in a meadow within view of Massanutten Mountain. The two-story brick house, with an English bas... Read More

Situated on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in Warren County, this historic farm was established and occupied in the 1700s by Jost Hite and his family, early settlers in the area. The original house, Traveler's Hall, burned ca. 1840 and the pr... Read More

Named after the "long way" taken by local historical figure Mary Draper Ingles. Long Way Brewing is Radford, VA's first nanobrewery, situated in a beautifully restored stone church. Founded in 2020 by friends Rob Gropman, Keith Weltens, and Jeff Klep... Read More