Places To Visit

Explore the scenic spot on the banks of Arlington Creek the historic site of Arlington Plantation. The grand manor house built in the 1670s by tobacco farmer John Custis II is no more, but its distinguished lineage lives on in the Arlington National ... Read More

The Custom House, built about 1720 by Custom Agent Richard Ambler, occupies a unique place in American History. Listed on the Virginia Landmark Register and National Register of Historic Places, the Custom House is also one of only twelve Historic Cu... Read More

In 1833, twin brothers Ambrose and Reuben Dallard were born into slavery on the Riverbank plantation, located in present-day Rockingham county. The two brothers remained enslaved with their families until sometime in their late twenties or early thir... Read More

Designed by James C. Lombard and Co. of Washington D.C., and opened in 1921, the Dalton Theatre followed the prototype theater design of Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, in which the theater section is fronted by an office building. It... Read More

Recalling Danville's former role as a world textile-manufacturing powerhouse, Dan River Mill No. 8 was built by Dan River, Inc. in 1920 and operated from 1921 through to the 1990s. Encompassing 18-plus acres on the south bank of the Dan River, the mi... Read More

The main residence of the Dan River plantation of Dan's Hill is one of the several stately brick dwellings erected during the early 19th century, the region's period of ascendancy. The formal five-bay structure was built ca. 1833 for Robert Wilson, a... Read More

One of the nation's most historic routes, the trail was blazed by the legendary frontiersman in 1775 and has become the route for hundreds of thousands of settlers of the western frontier. The driving tour follows the Wilderness Trail to Cumberland G... Read More

Built ca. 1749 for Daniel Harrison, one of the area's earliest settlers, this rugged Rockingham County farmhouse was constructed of limestone in the plain style favored by the region's early settlers for their more substantial dwellings. During the I... Read More

The Daniel Munch House is a handsome, two-story, brick, Federal-style farmhouse overlooking Passage Creek in the Fort Valley, a narrow valley within the Massanutten Mountain range in eastern Shenandoah County. Built in 1834 for Daniel Munch, a prospe... Read More

The Dante Coal mining and Railroad Museum invites visitors to enjoy exhibits of coal and railroad memorabilia, donated by the residents and former residents of Dante and the surrounding community. This building is now the home of the DANTE HISTORY PR... Read More

Home to the elegant Millionaires Row and the Old West End, the Danville Historic District showcases some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian architecture in Virginia and North Carolina. Many of the old mansions built by the tobacco and textile baro... Read More

Danville's historical society is working to share a comprehensive history of the city, after decades of selective preservation.... Read More

The turn-of-the-century architectural movement termed the American Renaissance endowed cities and towns with grand classical works that lend a strong sense of continuity and place. A relatively late but nonetheless effective expression of this moveme... Read More

The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is housed in the Sutherlin Mansion which was the former home of Major William T. Sutherlin, wartime quartermaster for Danville and among its most prominent citizens. For one week, 3-10 April 1865, Major an... Read More

Established in December 1866, the Danville National Cemetery first was used to inter Union prisoners of war who died in the tobacco warehouses and factories that were converted into Danville's Confederate prisons. Most of the dead, 1,170 known, and 1... Read More