Belle Grove Plantation, the birthplace of President James Madison, located in King George County Virginia, is now the home of Belle Grove Plantation Bed & Breakfast. Our Historic Landmark was established in 1670 on the banks of the Rappahannock River... Read More

While searching for his lost brother who fought in the French-Indian War, James Mayo Hoge instead found his true love, Elizabeth Howe, and together they built a home on land they called Hayfield (now Belle-Hampton) in 1767. James Mayo Hoge fought cou... Read More

A handsome specimen of provincial Federal architecture, Belleview was built in the late 18th century for John Redd, a pioneer settler who served as a member of the county court and participated during the American Revolution in several frontier actio... Read More

The Nat Turner Insurrection, America's bloodiest and most famous armed uprising by enslaved people, ended at Belmont, the Southampton County home of Dr. Samuel Blunt, on August 23, 1831. Turner, an enslaved Black man, believed he was divinely selecte... Read More

Belvidere is a surviving late-18th-century example of residential architecture in Goochland County. Built around 1790, the house incorporates an unusual variation of the regionally recognized three-room house plan with an off-center chimney at one en... Read More

Ben Lomond and its outbuildings were constructed for Benjamin Chinn in 1832. Confederate forces used Ben Lomond as a hospital following the 1861 Battle of First Manassas. Signatures of Federal soldiers who occupied the property in 1862 are still visi... Read More

Once known as Gains' Crossroad, Ben Venue Farm was established in 1805. The two-story brick house and slave quarters were constructed by a local builder, James Leake Powers with bricks made on the premises. The farm is on the Virginia Historical L... Read More

Located in the hamlet of Moore's Store in Shenandoah County, the Benjamin Wierman House is an excellent example of a vernacular dwelling with late Greek Revival-style characteristics. The house was built circa 1859 by Benjamin Wierman, who moved to t... Read More

In 1619, after a stormy voyage across the Atlantic, the Good Ship Margaret landed at Berkeley with thirty-six men aboard. In accordance with the instructions given in the charter by the Virginia Company, these settlers observed the first official En... Read More

Located in southern Pittsylvania County near the North Carolina border, Berry Hill is a remarkably complete Southside plantation grouping with a sprawling, much-evolved dwelling house and numerous outbuildings. The unusually high number of support st... Read More

"Berry Hill was almost the last of the great houses to be built in Virginia…Its isolated site lends an almost overpoweringly romantic aura to the distinction of its carefully executed portico flanked by two small Doric pavilions. The entire compositi... Read More

Berryville is located in Clarke County, Virginia, where the sense of home means everything. Where safety, community and the convenience of small-town America still exits. Holiday and special events throughout the year like the Music in the Park su... Read More

The Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives is Richmond's museum of Jewish history, art and culture. Located in the historic Fan District, the Museum & Archives is housed in an early 20th century row house adjacent to the 1904 sanctuary of Congregation Beth Ah... Read More

Bethel's history from 1746 to 1974 is described in depth in Bethel and Her Ministers written by Herbert S. Turner, D.D., to commemorate our 200th anniversary in 1946 and updated to include later years with the help of James Sprunt, D.D. In Dr. Tur... Read More

More recently known as "Streetcar Named Desire," this engaging example of 20th-century Americana, formerly Bill's Diner, began life in the mid-1920s as a functioning streetcar in Reidsville, N.C. Bill Fretwell of Chatham took advantage of the elimina... Read More