Places To Visit

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

The railroad station is among the most threatened of American architectural forms. Perhaps less than ten percent of our extant stations are used for their original function. Many that are not abandoned now serve new uses. Temporarily closed to passen... Read More

Occupying some forty blocks of the heart of the city, the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District formed the economic wellspring of 19th-century Danville. The various warehouses, factories, shops, and dwellings display the city's mill-tow... Read More

Established in 1833, the Rockingham County town of Dayton is among the most distinctive of several small towns lining the Shenandoah Valley's former Harrisonburg-Warm Springs Turnpike. The turnpike, and later the railroad, serviced local enterprises.... Read More

Captain Oswald Cary was granted 460 acres on the Piankatank River in 1685; the present house was likely built several decades later by a Cary descendant. Fire gutted the interior in the early 19th century; hence, the present woodwork dates from that ... Read More

DeJarnette's Tavern is considered to be the most unchanged 18th-century tavern in Virginia. Built in the late 1700s in Halifax County, it was named for Daniel DeJarnette, the son of James Pemberton DeJarnette, whose Huguenot family had fled France in... Read More

The Deltaville Maritime Museum & Holly Point Nature Park is a local treasure, collecting and exhibiting the rich nautical history of the area known as the "Boatbuilding Capital of the Chesapeake." Not far from the spot where Jamestown Colony explorer... Read More

Southern Vintage Beach Charm at its Best. The historic de Witt Cottage, located just steps away from the sands of the Atlantic Ocean, is the perfect location for any celebrated festivity from Proposals, Showers and Weddings; Reveal parties and Baby S... Read More

Dickenson County Military Veteran's Memorials. Dickenson County has several memorials to honor the soldiers who have died in combat. A Vietnam memorial, Korean War Memorial, as well as memorials for World War I and World War II are located on the Dic... Read More

In 1766 John Dix established his ferry approximately three miles south of here on the Dan River. During the American Revolution, in February 1781, the ferry was a strategic site in Gen. Nathanael Greene's "race to the Dan," the pursuit of Greene to t... Read More

Doe Creek Farm, located on the flanks of Salt Pond Mountain in Giles County, is a commercial apple orchard and stock farm established in 1883. The farm centers on the 1883 Greek Revival farmhouse of Samuel Sayers Hoge, Sr. and Mollie Price Hoge, a tw... Read More