Places To Visit

German settlers in the Shenandoah Valley built Mannheim about 1788. Three bays wide, the coursed-limestone dwelling stands two-and-one-half stories high, banked into the rolling hillside. The off-center entry is surrounded by a wide wooden architrave... Read More

Captain Mallory with the Warwick County Militia, and Elizabeth City County Militia beat the British at the Waters Creek Skirmish. The Militia number around 88 men who engaged the British Forces from Benedict Arnold British Force. Captain Mallory and ... Read More

Edmund Ruffin, the pioneering agronomist and ardent secessionist, made his Hanover County plantation of Marlbourne a laboratory for his agricultural theories. By showing that exhausted soils could be revitalized with the application of marl, scientif... Read More

Originally built in 1832, The Martha Washington Inn has seen many different uses. When the armies of the Civil War battled in and around Abingdon, the building served as a hospital for wounded soldiers, and romantic stories of nurses and soldiers sti... Read More

The Martinsville fish dam is one of the few such aboriginal fish traps of its type remaining in the state. The structure consists of stones piled in the bed of the river to form a low V-shaped wall or dam extending from bank to bank with the apex of ... Read More

The Historic Henry County Courthouse now houses the Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center and Museum in the portion of the building that was formerly the Henry County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office. Exhibits on local and regional history change r... Read More

Mary Ball Washington was born in Lancaster County, Virginia in 1708 and was orphaned as a child. She married Augustine Washington in 1731 and her oldest child, George, was born in 1732. Following the death of her husband in 1743, the young widow rais... Read More

When Mary Washington died in 1789 at the age of 81, she was buried at her request at her favorite spot near her daughter's home. In 1833 a cornerstone was laid by President Andrew Jackson but the monument was never finished. In 1894 President Grover ... Read More

Nestled on 200 acres of woodlands and meadows just outside of Harrisonburg, Massanetta Springs is an idyllic setting for a wide variety of events. We are a designated National Historic District and part of Virginia's Green Lodging program. Guests may... Read More

With only 94 square miles of land, Mathews is one of the smallest of Virginia's counties. It was originally delineated c. 1651 as Kingston Parish within neighboring Gloucester County. In 1791, the Virginia General Assembly designated it as a separate... Read More

The Mathews Downtown Historic District captures an area generally known as the Mathews Court House village in Mathews County and which had been occupied by Virginia Indians since the Early Woodland period. Substantive Euro-American development of the... Read More

The Mathews County Historical Museum mission is to preserve and promote the cultural heritage and history of Mathews County and to provide relevant displays, collections and educational and experiential programs for the public. This museum in Mat... Read More

In May of 1991 Mathews celebrated its 200th anniversary. The county, formed in 1791 from a portion of Gloucester, was named for then Speaker of the House Thomas Mathews of Norfolk. With more than 200 miles of shoreline on the Chesapeake Bay, and the ... Read More

The Mattaponi, "people of the river," have inhabited this region in present day King William County for over 15,000 years. The Mattaponi Indian Reservation was created from land held by an act of the General Assembly in 1658, making it one of the old... Read More

Previously known as "Bourbon" and "Brick House Farm", the Matthew Jones House was named after the inscription over the doorway of the original kitchen. The inscription reads "Matthew Jones 1727." When the kitchen was demolished in 1893 to provide bri... Read More