Burke’s Garden Rural Historic District
Encompassing nearly forty square miles in southwest Virginia’s Tazewell County, Burke’s Garden is a topographically unique elongated basin rimmed entirely by Garden Mountain, a continuous mountain system which protects the […]
Pleasant Point
Atop a bluff overlooking the James River opposite Jamestown Island, Pleasant Point illustrates the formality found in many of Virginia’s lesser colonial seats. The Surry County complex consists of a […]
Chippokes Plantation Historic District (Chippokes State Park)
This 1,403-acre Surry County plantation opposite Jamestown Island has been an identifiable entity since the early 17th century, when it was owned by Capt. William Powell. Named for Choupocke, a […]
Augusta County Courthouse
Completed in 1901, the Augusta County Courthouse stands in the city of Staunton, where all of the county’s courthouses have stood since the first one was built in 1745. Its […]
Beverley Historic District
The Beverley Historic District includes approximately 150 buildings in some eleven blocks of downtown Staunton. Although the area was part of the mid-18th-century settlement founded on the land of William […]
Old Stone Tavern
Old Stone Tavern on the Wilderness Road (now U.S. Route 11) in Smyth County, was erected before 1815 by Frederick Cullop to accommodate travelers in the heavy westward migration through […]
Aspenvale Cemetery
The historic Aspenvale Cemetery is noted primarily for containing the grave of Gen. William Campbell, a Virginia-born hero of the American Revolution. Campbell led his soldiers to victory over Loyalist […]
Snapp House
The late 18th-century log Snapp farmhouse is one of Shenandoah County’s best representatives of the Continental-type central-chimney dwellings built by the area’s German-speaking settlers. The Germanic tradition is evident in […]
Hupp House
The Hupp House, also known as the Hupp Homestead or Frontier Fort, was likely built as early as 1755, presumably by Peter Hupp, a settler of German extraction who came […]
Peter Paul House
This plain dwelling near the town of Dayton in Rockingham County is one of the few Continental-type farmhouses surviving from the heavy German settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. The central-chimney […]