Carter Braxton (1736-1797) was a "Founding Father of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, plantation owner and merchant." The brick structure is Elsing Green and was built by the Dandridge family between 1715-1720. Elsing ... Read More

Joseph Dodson, Sr., built the smaller section of Carter's Tavern as his dwelling before 1773. His younger son, Joseph Dodson, Jr., operated it as an ordinary early in the 19th century here on River Road, then the principal highway between Halifax Cou... Read More

Causey's Mill, constructed in 1866, serves as a visual reminder of Newport News's nearly vanished agrarian past. This small, two-story wood building is one of the two last surviving gristmills on the peninsula, and the only one which still retains it... Read More

For nearly a century, the grand Cavalier has stood sentinel over the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Perched on a grassy hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Virginia's most iconic hotel has welcomed ten U.S. Presidents, countless celebrities, and disting... Read More

This farm was always referred to as “Cave Hill Farm” because the cave was such a great place for good, clean water right out of the ground. It has withstood slavery, droughts, and dust storms in the early 1900s, financial stress in the 1930's and... Read More

Among Halifax County's oldest-surviving houses, Cedar Grove dates to the late 1770s, as indicated by aspects of the one-story house, which may have been built for William Smith. Early features include hewn and mill-sawn framing members, wrought nails... Read More

Cedar Grove Plantation was the birthplace of Letitia Christian Tyler. She was the wife of 10th President John Tyler, and came from one of New Kent County, Virginia's leading families. Her parents, Robert and Mary Browne Christian were prosperous and ... Read More

On the blazing hot afternoon of August 9, 1862 a few miles south of Culpeper, Virginia, Confederate Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson led his troops into battle against Union Major General Nathaniel Banks' corps of the Army of Virginia. The fi... Read More

President Abraham Lincoln visited Union General George Hartsuff at Centre Hill on April 7, 1865, just days after the fall of Petersburg and Richmond. In 1909, President William Howard Taft lunched at the mansion. Built in 1823 by Robert Bolling IV, C... Read More

The woods, fields, and roads that make up Chancellorsville Battlefield span across both sides of modern-day Route 3. The park's visitor services, driving route, and trails provide a variety of options for exploring and connecting with the history of ... Read More

The linear district includes the buildings of governance for the county seat of Pittsylvania County, commercial buildings dating from the late 19th to mid-20th century, and residential neighborhoods constructed between 1807 and 1950. Included in the ... Read More

This magnificent Georgian mansion, its various outbuildings and dependencies, and the historic ground which surrounds it represent a small preserve in which the entire scope of Virginia heritage from Colonial times to the 20th Century. Today Chatham ... Read More

The Chatham Southern Railway Depot was erected between 1918 and 1919. The depot is a well-known landmark, owing in part to the importance of the railroad in the post-1850 history of the town and region. As the central transportation hub of Chatham an... Read More

The land at Chatham, which overlooks Church Creek, was patented in 1640. The Federal-period brick house, Chatham, was built in 1818 by Major Scarborough Pitts and named for William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham and friend of the American Revolution. The ... Read More

The Cheriton area is one of the oldest settled parts of the Eastern Shore. When Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay and the Eastern Shore in 1608, he wrote in his journal about landing at Cheriton and being brought by Indians to their Werr... Read More