Places To Visit

Salem Church was built by Baptists in 1844 to serve a growing population west of Fredericksburg. The Spotsylvania church was used as a hospital by both sides during the Civil War, and it served as a civilian refugee center during the Battle of Freder... Read More

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church traces its existence to 1789 when Shenandoah Valley circuit preacher Paul Henkel held services for the German community in a schoolhouse nearby at Seawright Springs. By 1805, the congregation had built a frame struct... Read More

The Salem Museum is larger than it looks, with exhibits on five floors. At the heart of the Museum is the 1845 Williams-Brown House, which was originally situated along the Great Wagon Road. Exhibits trace Salem's history from early Virginia Indian s... Read More

The "The Crying Tree" marker relays the story of Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Adams (1841-1913), a young girl of about five when she, her mother, and other family members were sold at a slave auction at the Smyth County Courthouse. The results left the e... Read More

Historic Salubria is an 18th-century (ca. 1757) Georgian-style manor house built for the Reverend John Thompson, rector of the Little Fork Church from 1740 to 1772, who married the widow of Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood.  The house received the name ... Read More

From 1763 to 1801, the Sappony Episcopal Church was served by the Rev. Devereux Jarrett, a proponent of Methodism within the Anglican, and later Episcopal church. Jarrett was one of Virginia's few Anglican clerics to be affected by the Great Awakenin... Read More

This 298-acre preserve contains a mile of Chesapeake Bay shoreline, maritime forest, a freshwater pond, and a 0.75-mile trail through some of the highest sand dunes on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Visitors may choose from three marked trails with i... Read More

The roughly 512-acre Schoolfield Historic District encompasses the remaining buildings associated with the mill village of Schoolfield, an independent company town the textile giant Dan River Mills developed southwest of downtown Danville beginning i... Read More

In the late 19th century, Danville added the textile manufacturing element to its already robust tobacco-driven economy. As workers from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina moved to Danville, the Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mill Company too... Read More

The Schoolfield Welfare Building, located in Danville and completed in 1917, was constructed by Dan River, Inc., and built in support of the textile mill company's progressive welfare policies that aimed to better the lives of its mostly female workf... Read More

Schwartz Tavern, Blackstone's oldest building, was purchased by an early settler in Nottoway County named John Schwartz in 1790. In May 1798, Schwartz was issued a license to operate a tavern at this site. Schwartz Tavern has been altered several tim... Read More

The Scottsville Museum preserves the heritage of Scottsville, Virginia, an historic James River town. Originally called Scott's Landing, the town became the first county seat for Albemarle County in 1744. Scottsville was incorporated in 1818 at the n... Read More

The Sebrell Rural Historic District contains the remnants of Barn Tavern, which gave rise in the 18th and 19th centuries to a community of the same name. The village of Sebrell, a 20th-century rail-stop town, evolved from Barn Tavern. The remnants of... Read More

Although historical records suggest that more than eighty churches and chapels were constructed in Virginia during the 17th century, only St. Luke's Church in Isle of Wight County and the bell tower of Jamestown Church have survived from the first ce... Read More

Selwyn stands among Hanover County's Civil War battlefields and was witness to the events of the war in 1862 and in 1864. The house was used as headquarters and a hospital first by Union and then by Confederate armies in 1862 during McClellan's Penin... Read More