Furr Farm
Furr Farm in Loudoun County was the site of a fierce cavalry skirmish during the Civil War Battle of Aldie, fought in June 1863. The house at Furr Farm, portions […]
USS Wisconsin
The USS Wisconsin is an Iowa-class battleship, the largest class of battleships the U.S. ever built. The 887-foot vessel was launched on December 7, 1943 (the second anniversary of Pearl […]
NASA Langley Research Center Historic District
Established in 1917, during World War I, originally as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory and the nation’s first civilian aeronautics laboratory, the NASA Langley Research Center in the city of […]
Unison Battlefield Historic District
Stretching between the villages of Philomont and Unison in Loudoun County and Upperville in Fauquier County, the Unison Battlefield Historic District is where Union and Confederate cavalry detachments fought between […]
Freeman Store
The Freeman General Store was built as a large two-story store and residence in 1859 on six acres of land adjacent to the newly-arrived Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad in […]
Haugh House
The Haugh House, a modest farmhouse built around 1855 in Rockingham County, was at the epicenter of Civil War combat on June 8, 1862. Sitting squarely between Federal and Confederate […]
Auburn Battlefield
Auburn Battlefield, in Fauquier County, is the site of Civil War actions fought on October 13 and 14 in 1863, during the Bristoe Campaign, between the forces of Confederate General […]
Prince William Forest Park Historic District
Prince William Forest Park Historic District, consisting of over 10,000 acres in Prince William County, was designated in 1935—during the Great Depression and the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt—as […]
Rochelle-Prince House
The Rochelle-Prince House was constructed around 1814 in the Southampton County seat of Courtland. The house was the one-time residence of James Henry Rochelle, who had a noteworthy career as […]
Saltville Battlefields Historic District
The two battlefields on which Confederate and Union forces contested control of the Confederacy’s most important source of salt, an essential commodity, are contained in the 2,737-acre Saltville Battlefields Historic […]
