Brown Grove Rural Historic District
The Brown Grove Rural Historic District is a historically African American community located south of the Town of Ashland. The district’s boundaries encompass two discontiguous areas near the geographic center […]
Calfee Training School
In 1939, with federal funding from the Public Works Administration, Pulaski County constructed the segregated Calfee Training School for the Town of Pulaski’s Black elementary school students. Significantly, the school’s […]
Susie G. Gibson High School
Under the supervision of Virginia’s Department of Education, Bedford County built the Susie G. Gibson High School in 1953-1954 to provide “separate but equal” facilities to the county’s Black high […]
Bedford Training School
Bedford County constructed the Bedford Training School in 1929-30 as its first public school to provide secondary education for Black students. The State Department of Education’s Division of School Buildings […]
Pine Grove Elementary School
Pine Grove Elementary School, constructed in 1917, is one of six schools for African American students built in Cumberland County that are associated with the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Philanthropist Rosenwald, […]
Courtland Historic District
Beginning as a cluster of courthouse buildings in 1752 along the north side of the Nottoway River, the Courtland Historic District forms the corer of the seat of Southampton County. […]
Norwood-Wingina Rural Historic District
Encompassing about 2,930 acres along the James River in southern Nelson County, the present-day Norwood-Wingina Rural Historic District was first occupied for thousands of years by the Monacans and their […]
Arrowhead
Arrowhead, located on the north side of the James River in the Norwood-Wingina Rural Historic District section of Nelson County, is important as the one-time residence of Colonel Wirt Robinson […]
Washington School
Washington School in Rappahannock County was constructed around 1923 as a two-teacher school. Of the Rosenwald Schools built in 79 localities in Virginia, about 50 percent were similar to the […]
St. George’s Episcopal Church
St. George’s Episcopal Church was constructed in 1849. It was the third church building erected on a lot originally designated for a church on a plat of Fredericksburg that the […]
