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, by which time all the district’s lots were […]

Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District

In Fairfax County, the Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District began as a 2,000-acre plantation owned by George Washington that he gave to his ward, Eleanor Parke Custis, and her husband. The acreage […]

Big Stone Gap Downtown Historic District

The Big Stone Gap Downtown Historic District is nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of western Virginia, in Wise County. The “Big Stone Gap” refers to the broadening of the Powell […]

Highland Springs Historic District

The Highland Springs Historic District, in eastern Henrico County, arose as an electric streetcar suburb that began in 1890 when Edmund S. Read of Massachusetts purchased land to create a […]