Places To Visit

George Washington's Ferry Farm is where young Washington spent his formative years and became an extraordinary man. The future general and first president was 6 years old when his family moved to Ferry Farm in King George County (now Stafford County)... Read More

The mission of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association is to preserve, restore, and manage the estate of George Washington to the highest standards and to educate visitors and people throughout the world about the life and legacies of George Washington,... Read More

George Washington used a little log building, now the middle room of George Washington Office Museum, as a military office from September 1755 to December of 1756 while Fort Loudoun was being constructed at the north end of town. Winchester played... Read More

The George Wythe House on Palace Green belonged to George Wythe (pronounced "with"), a leader of the patriot movement in Virginia, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and Virginia's first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The house also ... Read More

The Blue Ridge School (formerly the Blue Ridge Industrial School) was founded in Greene County in 1910 by the Rev. George P. Mayo as a missionary effort of the Episcopal Church to bring educational opportunities to isolated mountain communities. In 1... Read More

We welcome you to visit the Andrew Johnston House and Giles County Historical Society! The 1829 Federal-style manor house features many of the original decorative accents and charm of Giles County in the 19th century. Along with visiting our museu... Read More

Gillfield Baptist Church, one of the oldest African American congregations in the City of Petersburg, had its beginning in Prince George County in 1788. It has the oldest handwritten record book of any black church. The collection of church minut... Read More

This exhibition will inspire a deep appreciation for the continental and global forces as well as the individual actions by both iconic and ordinary people that brought about a model of democratic government that would change the world. More detai... Read More

Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation will explore the unique and essential Virginia people, events, and sites that helped bring liberty and democracy to a nation. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, ... Read More

The exhibit will explore the unique and essential Virginia people, events, and sites that helped bring liberty and democracy to a nation. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibit will highlight the complex,... Read More

The vestry of Augusta Parish purchased 200 acres here in 1749 to serve as a glebe, farmland set aside to support the minister. Just to the southwest, on a portion of this property, the parish established the first public cemetery in the vicinity. Gra... Read More

The Glebe House of St. Anne's Parish is one of the finest and probably the oldest of Virginia's colonial glebe houses, of which less than a dozen survive. Glebe houses were built on church lands used for the support of the parish. The houses were som... Read More

Come explore the Glencoe Mansion, home of General Gabriel C. Wharton and his wife Nannie Radford Wharton. The 1875 Wharton home was constructed of thousands of handmade bricks and was a fitting statement of the stature of the Wharton family in Southw... Read More

Glennmary in Halifax County is a work by the builder Dabney Cosby, Sr., who assisted with the original Jeffersonian buildings at the University of Virginia. Leaving Charlottesville, Cosby continued to design and build throughout southern Virginia. As... Read More

Built around 1861, Halifax County's Glenwood blends the county's leading antebellum architectural styles: Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italianate. The two-story frame house was constructed in front of an earlier planked circa-1800 log house whi... Read More