Places To Visit

Nestled on 200 acres of woodlands and meadows just outside of Harrisonburg, Massanetta Springs is an idyllic setting for a wide variety of events. We are a designated National Historic District and part of Virginia's Green Lodging program. Guests may... Read More

With only 94 square miles of land, Mathews is one of the smallest of Virginia's counties. It was originally delineated c. 1651 as Kingston Parish within neighboring Gloucester County. In 1791, the Virginia General Assembly designated it as a separate... Read More

The Mathews Downtown Historic District captures an area generally known as the Mathews Court House village in Mathews County and which had been occupied by Virginia Indians since the Early Woodland period. Substantive Euro-American development of the... Read More

The Mathews County Historical Museum mission is to preserve and promote the cultural heritage and history of Mathews County and to provide relevant displays, collections and educational and experiential programs for the public. This museum in Mat... Read More

In May of 1991 Mathews celebrated its 200th anniversary. The county, formed in 1791 from a portion of Gloucester, was named for then Speaker of the House Thomas Mathews of Norfolk. With more than 200 miles of shoreline on the Chesapeake Bay, and the ... Read More

The Mattaponi, "people of the river," have inhabited this region in present day King William County for over 15,000 years. The Mattaponi Indian Reservation was created from land held by an act of the General Assembly in 1658, making it one of the old... Read More

Previously known as "Bourbon" and "Brick House Farm", the Matthew Jones House was named after the inscription over the doorway of the original kitchen. The inscription reads "Matthew Jones 1727." When the kitchen was demolished in 1893 to provide bri... Read More

The plain log structure was built around 1770, on land on Mill Creek in Hamburg on land owned by Daniel Mauck. The Mauck's Meeting House congregation was organized about 1772 and consisted of both Mennonites and Baptists.... Read More

The Mathews VA250 Committee will officially announce its presence to the community at the county's spring festival, 'May Faire: A Rural Life', Saturday, May 4. *Mathews High School freshman, Hunter Owens, a member of the Mathews County VA250 Comm... Read More

Mayberry Presbyterian Church is one of the historic rock churches located in the tri-county area of Carroll, Floyd, and Patrick Counties of southwestern Virginia. Mayberry Church is located adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway at Mile Post 180.1, just ... Read More

Mayfield Earthwork Fort is one of a series of earthwork fortifications constructed in 1861 by the Confederate Army to defend the Manassas railroad junction. Located between Buckhall and Russia Branch tributaries of the Occoquan River, its strategic h... Read More

Mayhurst is a magnificent 9200 Sq Ft Italianate Victorian gem; remarkable for its architecture and oval-spiral staircase ascending four floors. The luxurious, historic and romantic Plantation Manor House is renowned for its beauty and its historical ... Read More

Overlooking Poplar Lawn Park, the William McKenney House is Petersburg's most extravagant example of the Queen Anne style. Designed by Maj. Harrison Waite, the city's leading architect of the time, the twenty-three-room mansion was completed in 1890.... Read More

Danville's Mechanicsville Historic District emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a distinctive, ethnically mixed neighborhood of tradesmen, educators, skilled workers, and laborers associated with Danville's textile and tobacco indust... Read More

Known as one of best-known covered bridges in Virginia. Spanning 204 feet across the Shenandoah River, Meem's Bottom is the last publicly maintained bridge in the state that visitors can still drive through. Although the original bridge was burned by... Read More