Places To Visit

In 1976 as the nation celebrated its 200th anniversary there was a renewed interest in historic preservation. The City of Falls Church chose the restoration and preservation of Cherry Hill Farm as its special bicentennial project. It was a cooperativ... Read More

Cherry Walk is one of the most preserved and intact representations of 18th Century living in Essex County. A manor home and multiple outbuildings sit on 95-acres of landscaped grounds, farmland, and forest. Explore life as it was and find rejuvena... Read More

The Chesterfield Museum is a reproduction of the colonial courthouse of 1750. Its collections tell the history of Chesterfield County from prehistoric times through the 20th century. Panel exhibits feature early Indian culture, artifacts from the fir... Read More

The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia is a 501(C)3 organization whose mission is to preserve, interpret and promote Chesterfield County history. The Historical Society is governed by a 15 member Board of Directors. The Society provides the ... Read More

Today the Chickahominy Tribe is the second largest of eight Virginia Indian tribes with 800 enrolled members. Most of the Chickahominy live on a high ridge in the vicinity of the river. The heart of the tribal community is the Tribal Center and the a... Read More

The Chickahominy Water Trail, as a leg of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, leads paddlers and boaters in the wake of Captain Smith up the Chickahominy River. Interpretive displays reveal the historical, cultural and ecolo... Read More

The museum's mission is to show agriculture's past, present and future. Four buildings house early American farm and forestry tools and equipment, including antique tractors and a working 1930s sawmill. Museum staffers care for a cow, rabbit, donk... Read More

In the heart of Old Town Alexandria, this beautiful English country-style church was built between 1767-1773. It was attended by George Washington, whose pew is marked with a silver plaque, and Robert E. Lee. The surrounding gardens and cemetery were... Read More

The present and second church of Christ Church Parish In Middlesex County was completed in the 1720s. Alexander Graves served as its mason, and John Hipkins, Sr., as its carpenter. Among its patrons were the Wormeleys of Rosegill. Although of modest ... Read More

Christ Episcopal Church is an active church that served as a hospital during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. The building is a fine example of Virginia's late Federal period architecture while bearing scars from the shelling during the Civil ... Read More

Home to over 30,000 works of art from around the world and an extensive glass art collection of 10,000 pieces spanning over 3,000 years,, the Chrysler Museum of Art is a true statement to Norfolk's vibrant art scene. The museum got its start in 1871 ... Read More

The Powhatan Creek Trail in James City County links to a number of historic sites along its path including the Tomb of the Unknown Patriot Solider of the American Revolution, the Church on the Main and Mainland Farm. The path is accessible to walkers... Read More

Church Quarter is a one-story, log, hall-parlor-plan house that was built about 1843. It remains remarkably intact and unspoiled, a rare survivor of what was once a common house type. Standing on Old Ridge Road, one of the earliest thoroughfares in H... Read More

The 109-plus-acre Clem-Kagey Farm is located near the Shenandoah County town of Edinburg. The main house, constructed in 1880 by Hiram C. Clem, is an exceptionally handsome, decorative, and intact example of the vernacular Late Victorian I-houses tha... Read More

The Clermont Foundation preserves the cultural landscape of historic Clermont Farm in the Shenandoah Valley, in partnership with its owner, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR). The Foundation uses the farm’s many historic buildin... Read More