Places To Visit

The Fieldale Historic District, located on the Smith River in Henry County, incorporates a company mill town established in 1916 by Marshall Field & Company to produce towels for the Marshall Field's Department Store. Situated on a 1,800-acre tract o... Read More

In 1916, Marshall Field and Company, of the Chicago Marshall Field Department Store, purchased 1841 acres of land surrounded by the Smith River. Marshall Field had long purchased items to sell in his store and decided to build his own manufacturing f... Read More

Join authors Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Y. Green along with illustrator and Howard University graduate Kim Holt, for a free family program that highlights their new book; Fight for the Right to Read: Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Sit-Down Stik... Read More

Deep in the Franklin County countryside, the Finney-Lee House is a surprisingly refined late Federal I-house exhibiting handsomely crafted wooden trim and Flemish-bond brickwork. Such dwellings, although not commonplace, were preferred by many southe... Read More

The Commonwealth of Virginia placed the "First Africans in Virginia" marker in 1994. It stands on the seawall at Old Point Comfort. The marker represents and commemorates where the first enslaved Africans came to Virginia.... Read More

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg was organized in 1776, with a quest by a group of courageous slaves and free blacks who wanted to worship God in their own way. First led by Rev. Moses, a free black itinerant preacher, they built a brush arbo... Read More

The First Baptist Church in the Farmville Historic District, founded 1867, emerged as a center for the local black community under the leadership of its pastor, the Reverend L. Francis Griffin, when it sought to desegregate Prince Edward County's pub... Read More

Upon touching the shore of the New World on April 26, 1607 (13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock) the first permanent English settlers from the London Company set up a cross on the newly named Cape Henry shore in gratitude to God and ... Read More

One mile north is the grave of John Lewis, first settler in this region, who came here in 1732 and died in 1762. He chose the site of the town of Staunton. His four sons, Thomas, Andrew, William and Charles, took an important part in the Indian and R... Read More

Fisher's Hill is a collection of small knobs and ridges that occupies the narrowest point in the Shenandoah Valley. The distance in between Little North Mountain on its west and Massanutten Mountain on its east is only about 3.9 miles. This naturally... Read More

The Flanary archaeological site contains stratified deposits dating to the Archaic and Late Woodland periods of Indian settlement. Well-preserved Archaic period deposits (8000 to 1000 B.C.) occur rarely in the western portion of the state, and the si... Read More

Flat Rock's interestingly evolved Lunenburg County plantation house is a study in local vernacular building traditions. The oldest part was erected in the late 18th century for James Hooper using a two-story, side-passage plan format. The Chambers fa... Read More

Flint Hill Baptist Church is the home of one of the earliest Baptist congregations in Rappahannock County. One of the Town of Flint Hill's most prominent antebellum landmarks, the 1854 church was built on land conveyed by Alfred Dearing. The simple f... Read More

The Ridgemont Hospital - Marie Williams House is now home to the Floyd County Historical Society Museum HOURS: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, noon to 5:00pm Admission is FREE!... Read More

The Fluvanna Farm Heritage Museum at Pleasant Grove Park opened to the public in 2018. This museum is a joint project of the Fluvanna Historical Society and the County of Fluvanna. The museum, which is filled with displays of antique farm equipmen... Read More