Port Royal Historic District
The tiny Rappahannock River community of Port Royal in Caroline County was a thriving tobacco port during colonial times. Named for Thomas Roy’s tobacco warehouse, the town was established in […]
Wigwam
Wigwam was the home of William Branch Giles (1762-1830), who served Virginia in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and was elected governor in 1827. Giles […]
Sweet Chalybeate Springs
The Sweet Chalybeate Springs spa complex in Alleghany County is a relic of the 19th-century days when the fashionable world of the North and South came to the mineral springs […]
Alexandria Historic District
Alexandria was established in 1749 with its streets laid out in a uniform grid plan. It quickly became the principal seaport of Northern Virginia, witnessing the construction of numerous mansions, […]
Corbin Hall
Commanding a sweeping view across Chincoteague Bay atop terraced grounds, the plantation house at Corbin Hall was perhaps the most academic example of Georgian architecture on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Its […]
