Places To Visit

The Bristol Sign, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, stands over State Street, which runs through the middle of Bristol. One half is in Bristol, Tennessee, and the other half is in Bristol, Virginia. In 1910, the Bristol Gas and... Read More

Occupying a conspicuous location on the edge of Bristol's commercial district, the Bristol Railroad Station, originally known as the Bristol Union Railway Station, was constructed in 1902. The stone-and-brick structure is one of the last surviving ex... Read More

The diminutive proportions of this colonial plantation house, in Essex County's Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District, may result from the fact that it was built for a woman, Sarah Taliaferro Brooke, who supervised its construction. Brooke's... Read More

Once a defining feature of rural America, the general store is rapidly becoming an endangered architectural species. Such buildings formerly dotted the countryside with regularity. Most, however, have vanished, and most remaining ones are abandoned. ... Read More

A relic of a leading Virginia industry, this plain but substantially built brick building is perhaps the state's best-preserved antebellum tobacco factory. Located in the heart of Virginia's bright-leaf tobacco belt, the two-story Brooklyn Tobacco Fa... Read More

The earliest portion of the galleried frame Brooks-Brown House was built in the 1830s and was later expanded with several additions. Its original occupant was Andrew Brooks, a Franklin County farmer who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from ... Read More

A long-standing tradition maintains that Brown's Ferry was the birthplace of William Mahone (1826-1895), the colorful Confederate general who achieved fame during the 1864 siege of Petersburg. Known as the "Hero of the Crater," Mahone closed the gap ... Read More

On a remote edge of the Eastern Shore's broad oceanside marshes in Northampton County is the surprisingly urbane Federal-style residence of Brownsville, built in 1806 for John Upshur. Upshur's ancestor John Browne, from whom the property derives its ... Read More

The early movement to provide women access to higher education is symbolized in the cluster of buildings that survive in Buckingham County from the Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute, the first chartered college for women in Virginia. Opened in 1... Read More

Buckshoal Farm was the birthplace and favorite residence of William M. Tuck (1896-1983), one of Virginia's most popular 20th-century governors. Elected in 1945, his term is remembered for his effect on labor-management relationships. He was instrumen... Read More

Buena Vista Colored School stands today as a little-altered brick building for the segregated education of African American students. One room was constructed in 1914 on land owned by First Baptist Church (African American), and an almost identical r... Read More

This charming little building is one of Culpeper's oldest homes, a reminder of Culpeper's Colonial era.... Read More

This simple vernacular hostelry is a reminder of a flourishing period in the area, when taverns were the scene of much local socializing and political activity. Located at a rural crossroads on the Nottoway/Prince Edward County line, the tavern foste... Read More

The mid-1920s Danville Car No. 66 ended its transportation duties in 1938 when that city began converting to bus service. Salvaged from the scrappers, the trolley car was converted into a diner by the resourceful Burnett brothers, Henry, Frank, and J... Read More

Burnt Quarter is a historic plantation house in Dinwiddie County. Built in stages starting in 1750, the house is a two story structure with a hipped roof and a central section flanked by 1% story wings. It is believed that the property on which the h... Read More