Places To Visit

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

This historic structure, owned by the County of Fluvanna, is significant across Virginia and the nation as the first of the model-setting Jefferson-inspired classical courthouses to use a Greek order for its columns, thus serving as a new model itsel... Read More

The Forestville Historic District encompasses a well-preserved mill village settled initially by German settlers, located at the crossroads of Routes 42, 614, and 767 in Shenandoah County. Forestville arose around a gristmill constructed about 1760 b... Read More

Fork Church, in Hanover County, was erected ca. 1737 as the second Lower Church of St. Martin's Parish. Fork Church derives its name from its location between the North and South Anna Rivers, near where they join to form the Pamunkey River. Typical o... Read More

Fort Boykin has been a part of American history since 1623 when a fort known as the Castle was constructed to protect the Jamestown colonists from Native Americans and raiding Spaniards. Atop a bluff overlooking the James River, the sites commanding ... Read More

The notable history of Fort Chiswell began in 1760 when over 650 soldiers were stationed at the fort during the French and Indian War. Important Cherokee leaders converged at the fort for peace talks and trade, establishing marks on land that would s... Read More

This simple, worn earthwork of Fort Cricket Hill in Mathews County is the tangible remnant of the event that marked the end of the last vestige of British rule in the Virginia colony. In July 1776, Virginia troops commanded by Gen. Andrew Lewis took ... Read More

Fort Egypt, a massive, full-dovetailed log house in Page County near the Shenandoah River, is one of the earliest and most complete of a small group of houses erected in the Massanutten region by Pennsylvania settlers of both German and Swiss descent... Read More

The Fort Mitchell Depot is the last standing train depot in Lunenburg County, where once there existed seven passenger and freight depots representing three different railroads�the Richmond & Danville, the Virginian, and the Roanoke Valley Railroad. ... Read More

With a long history, Fort Monroe has witnessed some of our nation's most significant events. Located at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay you can enjoy the panoramic waterfront views, nature trails, historic homes and buildings, restaurants, and beache... Read More

The Fort Monroe Visitor & Education Center features exhibits that tell the story of the first landing of Africans in English North America and the "Contraband Decision" at Fort Monroe. The history surrounding Old Point Comfort has many layers of comp... Read More

Fort Nonsense Historical Park, a joint project of Mathews County Historical Society, Inc., the County of Mathews and the Virginia Department of Transportation, celebrated its grand opening May 10, 2014. The creation of this gateway park to Mathews Co... Read More

Fort Norfolk is the last remaining of 19 harbor-front forts authorized in 1794 by President George Washington. The fort's four-acre site, located in Ghent, overlooks the Elizabeth River and includes earthwork embankments, ramparts, a dungeon, officer... Read More

It is the site of the May 24, 1864 land-naval "Action at Wilson's Wharf," the first major clash between U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) of Major General Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James and General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The eart... Read More

A Confederate fortification located six miles east of Lynchburg in Amherst County, Fort Riverview is strategically situated atop a steep ridge overlooking the James River. This well-preserved defensive work contains artillery emplacements that defend... Read More