Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation
The Rappahannock Navigation, which consisted of twenty dams, each with its own system of locks, is ranked by canal experts as the country’s most intact example of a lock-and-dam navigation […]
Meems Bottom Covered Bridge
Constructed in 1893-94, the 200-foot single-span Meems Bottom Covered Bridge, crossing the Shenandoah River, is the longest of the Commonwealth’s handful of remaining covered bridges. Probably constructed by John W. […]
Linville Creek Bridge
The Linville Creek Bridge, on the southern end of the Rockingham County town of Broadway, is Virginia’s only Thacher truss bridge and one of only two surviving examples of its […]
Goshen Land Company Bridge
This lacy metal-truss bridge, with its distinctive thirty-degree skew, was built by the Groton Bridge Company for the Goshen Land and Improvement Company in 1890 when the Shenandoah Valley was […]
Crystal Spring Steam Pumping Station
Manufactured in 1905 by the Snow Steam Pump Company of Buffalo, N. Y., the water pump at the Crystal Spring Steam Pumping Station in the city of Roanoke is believed […]
Main Street Station and Trainshed
Completed in 1901, the Renaissance-style Main Street Station and Trainshed was designed by Wilson, Harris, and Richards of Philadelphia and served the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Seaboard Air Line […]
James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District
The linear James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District includes the canal route from the Great Ship Lock in the east end of the city of Richmond to Bosher’s Dam […]
First National Bank Building
Commissioned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., the First National Bank Building in the city of Richmond, with its elegant detailing, Corinthian columns, and lofty banking hall, is a […]
Crozet House
A familiar Main Street landmark in the city of Richmond’s Monroe Ward, the dignified brick Crozet House was built ca. 1815 by Curtis Carter, a local brickmason and contractor, as […]
Thomas J. Michie House
This well-mannered Greek Revival dwelling in the city of Staunton was built in 1847-48 for state delegate Thomas J. Michie. One of the earliest houses on East Beverley Street in […]
