Places To Visit

Old Forge Farm is the site of Isaac Zane's late-18th-century ironworks, the largest industrial operation in the Shenandoah Valley, which employed more than 100 persons to cast and forge pots, stoves, firebacks, and bar iron. During the American Revol... Read More

Part of a land grant of 1670, the plantation on which this venerable colonial manor house is located originally was called Bowling Green after the green sward before the entrance. The name was changed to Old Mansion when its owner, Maj. John Hoomes, ... Read More

This building served as the Middlesex County courthouse from 1748 to 1852. Although much altered from its original appearance, it is one of Virginia's rare colonial courthouse buildings. During the American Revolution, the local Committee of Safety m... Read More

Records indicate that Old Providence was in existence as a congregation in mid-summer, 1742. At that time it was known as the South Mountain Meeting House. The Baptismal Records of the Rev. John Craig indicate he performed baptisms that summer. Appar... Read More

This simple country church housed Halifax County's first Presbyterian congregation. Presbyterians began to spread through the southern Piedmont in the mid-18th century. By 1830 they were determined to have a more conveniently located meetinghouse and... Read More

Built in 1828, the stone jail was designed by John Hartwell Cocke and its construction managed by John G. Hughes and Richard McCary. Skilled brick and stone masons enslaved by John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo, likely including Peyton Skipwith and Charles... Read More

Scotch-Irish settlers built this stone meeting house for worship in 1788, when Winchester was a thriving frontier village. It was in this church that the first Sunday School South of the Mason-Dixon line was organized in 1815. General Daniel Morgan o... Read More

The Old Thomas James Store is an excellent example of an early-19th-century commercial building now long absent from the rural Virginia landscape. Researchers have identified this 1810 building in the Mathews Downtown Historic District as being one o... Read More

Welcome to Old Town Hall, the perfect place for a wedding, party or meeting. Old Town Hall is located in the heart of the nationally recognized City of Fairfax Historic District at 3999 University Drive. Adjacent to the Old Town Hall and historic ... Read More

Harrisonburg's Old Town Historic District is a well-preserved neighborhood of late-19th- through mid-20th-century houses. Many of Harrisonburg's prominent families have resided in the district, representing collectively much of the story of the city'... Read More

The Old Turner Place is located just west of the small village of Henry on a creek called Larkin's Branch. A two-story log house with tall sandstone chimneys and a log smokehouse, both dating to the late-18th or early-19th centuries, are on the prope... Read More

Opequon is the oldest Presbyterian congregation West of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Organized in 1732, it has had continuous worship services since its founding and is commonly referred to as the "Mother Church of the Valley." In the church yard is the... Read More

The action at Osborne's Virginia was a minor naval–land engagement on April 27, 1781, in the James River during the American Revolutionary War. The battle resulted in the near-complete destruction of the Virginia State Navy as well as a large stock... Read More

This site includes a prehistoric settlement dating from the last half of the late Woodland Period (AD 1300-1600). Within the area are undisturbed prehistoric cultural features and postmolds as well as well-preserved faunal and floral remains. This ma... Read More

Our History Matters works to bring awareness, acknowledgement, and appreciation for African American life and historic preservation in order to build more inclusive communities, formed with the mission to showcase the omitted histories of the people ... Read More