Hampton Downtown Historic District
The Hampton Downtown Historic District has been an active port on the Chesapeake Bay since the end of the 17th century. The colonial assembly ordered that a port be built […]
Gloucester Downtown Historic District
The boundaries of the Gloucester Downtown Historic District extended in a linear fashion on either side of Main Street in Gloucester Court House. Originally established as the Town of Botetourt […]
Hockley
Located on the Ware River in Gloucester County’s Ware Neck, Hockley is a 41-plus-acre property that contains the core of an 1840s estate. The property also contains significant early-18th- through […]
Millbrook
Millbrook is a well-preserved example of the style of farmsteads that were once typical in Nottoway County and the Southside region during the 19th century. The ca-1840 main house features […]
Saltville Battlefields Historic District
The two battlefields on which Confederate and Union forces contested control of the Confederacy’s most important source of salt, an essential commodity, are contained in the 2,737-acre Saltville Battlefields Historic […]
Newington Archaeological Site
Newington, the birthplace and boyhood home of Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, contains a rare combination of archaeological and surviving landscape elements derived from this former […]
Fort C. F. Smith Historic District
Fort C. F. Smith is the best-preserved Civil War defensive fort in Arlington County. Built in 1863, it was one of several union forts that encircled Washington, D.C., during the […]
Fort Pocahontas
Fort Pocahontas, a Civil War fort on the James River in Charles City County, is the best-preserved site in Virginia associated with African American Federal troops in combat. The United […]
Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church
Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church was built in 1851 for an Old School Primitive Baptist congregation in Loudoun County. The church symbolizes important Baptist religious history, specifically the evolution […]
J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace
The J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace in Patrick County is associated with the early life of Confederate cavalry commander General James Ewell Brown Stuart. Described by Robert E. Lee as “my ideal […]
