Places To Visit

There are no places in Southampton County more heavy with history than those associated with the 1831 Nat Turner Insurrection. Mahone's Tavern in the county seat of Courtland (formerly Jerusalem) is among them. Built in 1796 and known variously as Ke... Read More

Recalling the somber, Medieval buildings of Northern Italy, Danville's Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church South, the "Mother Church of Methodism," is among the most ambitious works of Victorian architecture in a city famed for such works. The Rom... 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

In this house, in about 1780, Captain Mallory Todd cured the first commercially produced Smithfield hams, which were shipped to customers in England. Hams were cured on this site from 1779 to 1936. The original Todd warehouse stood on the adjacent l... Read More

Manakin Episcopal's history dates back to 1701 when their first church was built by French Huguenots who settled in the area after fleeing persecution from their country. In 1710, a bigger church was built. In 1730, the church site was moved to a sit... Read More

This five-acre archaeological site, dedicated in 1995, is located on the original site of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth. The school was founded largely through the efforts of former slave Jennie Dean who, after almost a decade of c... Read More

Visit the newly expanded and renovated Manassas Museum and learn about local history from Native American settlements to the city's beginnings and its diverse population. Enjoy multi-media and hands-on experiences, tours and programs.... Read More

German settlers in the Shenandoah Valley built Mannheim about 1788. Three bays wide, the coursed-limestone dwelling stands two-and-one-half stories high, banked into the rolling hillside. The off-center entry is surrounded by a wide wooden architrave... Read More

Captain Mallory with the Warwick County Militia, and Elizabeth City County Militia beat the British at the Waters Creek Skirmish. The Militia number around 88 men who engaged the British Forces from Benedict Arnold British Force. Captain Mallory and ... Read More

Edmund Ruffin, the pioneering agronomist and ardent secessionist, made his Hanover County plantation of Marlbourne a laboratory for his agricultural theories. By showing that exhausted soils could be revitalized with the application of marl, scientif... Read More

Originally built in 1832, The Martha Washington Inn has seen many different uses. When the armies of the Civil War battled in and around Abingdon, the building served as a hospital for wounded soldiers, and romantic stories of nurses and soldiers sti... Read More

The Martinsville fish dam is one of the few such aboriginal fish traps of its type remaining in the state. The structure consists of stones piled in the bed of the river to form a low V-shaped wall or dam extending from bank to bank with the apex of ... Read More

The Historic Henry County Courthouse now houses the Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center and Museum in the portion of the building that was formerly the Henry County Circuit Court Clerk�s Office. Exhibits on local and regional history change reg... Read More

Mary Ball Washington was born in Lancaster County, Virginia in 1708 and was orphaned as a child. She married Augustine Washington in 1731 and her oldest child, George, was born in 1732. Following the death of her husband in 1743, the young widow rais... Read More

When Mary Washington died in 1789 at the age of 81, she was buried at her request at her favorite spot near her daughter's home. In 1833 a cornerstone was laid by President Andrew Jackson but the monument was never finished. In 1894 President Grover ... Read More