McGavock Family Cemetery
Atop a hill overlooking the Fort Chiswell Mansion, a former McGavock home, this family cemetery contains an exceptionally rich collection of 19th-century funerary art, including an important group of Germanic […]
St. John’s Lutheran Church and Cemetery
During the late 18th century, German settlers were concentrated near the present town of Wytheville, the seat of Wythe County. In 1798 St. John’s Lutheran Church, recently organized, adopted a […]
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
Forty-two well-preserved German-style gravestones, similar to those found in lesser numbers and in poorer condition in several other outlying Lutheran cemeteries around Wytheville, survive in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church […]
Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery
On a steep hillside looking over the countryside and mountains of western Wythe County, this early burying ground has a large collection of traditional German gravestones. Approximately fifty monuments within […]
Gooch Tomb and York Village Archaeological Site
The village of York, on the York River near Wormeley Creek, was established before 1635. It remained the area’s principal community until the early 1690s when Yorktown was established two […]
Alexander St. Clair House
Built in 1879-80 for Alexander St. Clair, a Tazewell County banker and farmer, this robust, finely appointed dwelling is a documented work of local builder Thomas M. Hawkins, who was […]
Indian Paintings on Paint Lick Mountain
These pictographs are on a rock face high on Paint Lick Mountain in Tazewell County. Stretched in a horizontal line along the irregular exposure is a series of simple images […]
Burke’s Garden Central Church and Cemetery
Settlers of German origin migrated from Pennsylvania to Southwest Virginia in the late 18th century, settling in Burke’s Garden, a bowl-shaped valley atop Garden Mountain, now the Burke’s Garden Rural […]
Little Town
A strikingly handsome specimen of an eastern Virginia gentry homestead, Little Town was built in 1811 for James C. Bailey, the county clerk. An 1820 tax assessment gave Little Town […]
Miles B. Carpenter House
Miles B. Carpenter, one of America’s foremost folk artists, purchased this 1890 frame house in 1912 and lived here until his death in 1985. Through his ownership of a local […]
