Werowocomoco Archeological Site
Werowocomoco, located along the York River’s Purtan Bay, is the only site in Virginia where the three legendary figures of paramount chief Powhatan, Captain John Smith, and Pocahontas crossed paths. […]
Shannon Cemetery
Shannon Cemetery is highly significant for its association with ethnic history in Giles County, and for the diversity and quality of its memorial art. The cemetery occupies two adjacent ridges […]
Willowdale
Willowdale represents one of the few remaining early dwellings of a colonial settler and farmer on the Eastern Shore. The Smith family held the property continuously from 1666 into the […]
Sleepy Hollow Farm
Lying in the shadow of Kittoctin Mountain, the main building of Sleepy Hollow Farm is an evolved two-story stone dwelling, built by Quaker Jacob Janney in 1769, with additions in […]
Home Farm
Home Farm is a well-preserved farmhouse, which has evolved over several periods of construction. Originally a two-story, L-shaped, log-and-stone “patent house,” it was built in the mid-18th-century in fulfillment of […]
Fort Colvin
Fort Colvin, built circa 1750 on the bank of the Opequon Creek, is a rare surviving example of 18th-century colonial architecture in the Lower Shenandoah Valley. A representative of architecture […]
Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District
Settled largely by wealthy Tidewater Virginians as they pushed into the colony’s western frontier in the 1720s, the 83,000-plus acres in the Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District initially developed slowly. […]
Kippax Plantation Archaeological Site
The Kippax Plantation Archaeological Site is located just below the fall line of the Appomattox River in the city of Hopewell. This location has made it appealing for settlement from […]
Sandwich
Sandwich may be one of the oldest buildings in Middlesex County’s Urbanna Historic District. Built in the second half of the 18th century, the brick house sits on a bluff […]
Leeds Manor Rural Historic District
John Marshall’s Leeds Manor Rural Historic District, centered on the historic Leeds Manor Road, covers over 23,000 acres in the northwest section of Fauquier County. The district’s name comes from […]