Walnut Hill Historic District
The Walnut Hill Historic District comprises a large residential neighborhood located near the center of the city of Petersburg. The neighborhood was first subdivided in 1910 after acquisition of a […]
Crewe Commercial Historic District
The Crewe Commercial Historic District captures the commercial core of the western Nottoway County town of Crewe. Also included within the district is the former Norfolk and Western Railway Company […]
Sandston Historic District
The Sandston Historic District in Henrico County (located east of the city of Richmond) consists of 226 acres of one- to two-story single-family dwellings, churches, a small number of commercial […]
Chase City Warehouse and Commercial Historic District
Chase City traces back to a mid-1700s crossroads community in northwest Mecklenburg County. The arrival in 1883 of the Atlantic, Richmond and Danville Railroad to Chase City catalyzed rapid commercial […]
Schoolfield Historic District
The roughly 512-acre Schoolfield Historic District encompasses the remaining buildings associated with the mill village of Schoolfield, an independent company town the textile giant Dan River Mills developed southwest of […]
U.S. Geological Survey National Center
The U.S. Geological Survey National Center is a major federal headquarters campus located in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The development of the USGS National Center is closely associated with […]
Silver Lake Historic District
In Rockingham County, the Silver Lake Historic District centers on its namesake lake, a large mill pond created around 1822, after John L. Rife built a dam across a spring-fed […]
South Hill Commercial Historic District
The South Hill Commercial Historic District in Mecklenburg County reflects South Hill’s emergence by 1891 as a rail town on the Atlantic & Danville Railroad. Financiers and engineers in 1889 […]
North Broad Street Historic District
In the city of Salem, the North Broad Street Historic District evokes the city’s economic prosperity from the 1880s to around 1950, when all the district’s lots were sold. Some […]
Virginia Beach Courthouse Village and Municipal Center Historic District
The earliest extant building in the Virginia Beach Courthouse Village and Municipal Center Historic District dates to around 1793 when the area was part of Princess Anne County. Other historic […]
