Places To Visit

The Boones Mill N&W Railway Depot serves as a living museum telling the history of the railroad in Boones Mill, Virginia. The Depot will be used in the future as a museum, a community meeting place, a centerpiece for various town and regional festiva... Read More

The Booth-Lovelace House is located amid rolling farmlands in Franklin County at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This Greek Revival-Italianate residence was built about 1859 for planter Moses G. Booth by local builder Seth Richardson. It is amo... Read More

The Botetourt County Historical Museum serves as a repository for hundreds of artifacts that have helped to interpret the history of Botetourt County for thousands of visitors. Located directly behind the historic Botetourt County Courthouse, the mus... Read More

The Bowman Farm occupies 700 acres of cleared and forested slopes on the southern flank of Cahas Mountain, an outlying peak of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Franklin County property is associated with the lifeways of a religious denomination known as... Read More

The 286-acre Bowman-Zirkle Farm near Edinburg, in Shenandoah County, features a handsome Victorian-style, circa-1879 farmhouse, an example of the area's prevailing late-19th-century rural I-house form. Within the farm complex are outbuildings and str... Read More

The original Boyd Tavern was constructed in 1790, consisting of a small one-story dwelling and tavern. Around 1816 the building was altered and expanded reflecting the nucleus of the present structure. By the 1820s, the building had evolved into a fe... Read More

Completed in 1723, the Brafferton building, a Georgian structure that originally housed Indigenous grammar school students and their teacher or "master," remains a key structure on William & Mary's historic campus. Beyond its architectural grandeur t... Read More

Brandon Plantation was originally the Halifax County homestead of the Brandon family, who settled here in the mid-18th century. The present house, a two-part vernacular dwelling, was built in 1800 and enlarged ca. 1842. The plain but forthright count... Read More

Brandon was originally a vast land grant to John Martin, companion of Captain John Smith, on his first voyage to America. The tract was known as Martin's Brandon. In 1637, merchants John Sadler and Richard Quiney and mariner William Barber, bought Ma... Read More

Located along Route 29 among the rolling hills of the Culpeper County, Virginia, the Brandy Station battlefield still retains much of its wartime character and is well worth the visit for those who wish to explore this great cavalry battlefield. Man... Read More

The Williamsburg Bray School, established by the London-based Anglican charity known as the Associates of Dr. Bray, was one of the earliest institutions dedicated to Black education in North America. Over the school's 14 years of operation, from 1760... Read More

This historic landmark was built ca. 1800 on Linville Creek by pioneer Abraham Breneman, who migrated from Pennsylvania in 1770. It is a four-story brick water-powered mill that is the only pre-Civil War mill remaining in Rockingham County with all t... Read More

The Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center (BMHC) shares and celebrates the historical and spiritual legacies of Brethren and Mennonites in the Shenandoah Valley. Coming from the same communities in Europe and Pennsylvania, Brethren and Mennonites have... Read More

Bridgewater, in Rockingham County, is one of the largest and best-preserved of a string of towns located along the Shenandoah Valley's former Harrisonburg�Warm Springs Turnpike. It began as a river port for neighboring farms to float their goods down... Read More

Brightwell's Mill has been a staple of the Lynchburg area since before the 1820's, having been rebuilt in�the August of 1942 following historical flooding, which breached the dam, and destroyed most of the mill. Since its establishment, it has served... Read More