Oakland Baptist Church

Oakland Baptist Church sits on a small urban parcel along the southwest side of King Street, west of the Old Town Alexandria Historic District. The church holds deep cultural, historical and communal importance […]

First Baptist Church Watson

The rural crossroads community of Watson in southeastern Loudoun County, roughly nine miles south of Leesburg, is centered around a historic general store and extends along Watson Road and Red […]

Brookbury

Once a large antebellum farm in Chesterfield County, Brookbury today encompasses 8.28 acres nestled within a mid-20th century residential development within the southern fringe of the city of Richmond. The oldest built resources […]

Mary N. Smith High School

The historic Mary N. Smith High School, currently the Mary Nottingham Smith Cultural Enrichment Center, is located west of U.S. Highway 13, just outside the Town of Accomac on the Eastern Shore […]

2108 Jefferson Avenue

Since the 1920s, the building at 2108 Jefferson Avenue—currently the site of Pearlie’s Restaurant—in the East End community of the City of Newport News has been home to a variety […]

Mount Jackson Colored Cemetery

The Mount Jackson Colored Cemetery is the premiere surviving resource associated with the Shenandoah County town of Mount Jackson’s historic African American community. The first mention of the cemetery is […]

William H. Randall Estates Historic District

Constructed in three phases between 1962 and 1974, William H. Randall Estates represents the vision of African American developer Jube Shiver, Sr., who sought to establish a neighborhood in the […]

African American Churches in Virginia MPD

The African American Churches in Virginia Multiple Property Document (MPD) outlines the significant social, civic, educational, and spiritual roles that African American churches and spiritual gathering places have played in […]

Bright Hope Baptist Church and Cemetery

Originally constructed ca. 1882, Bright Hope Baptist Church was established by a Reconstruction Era rural community of freedmen and -women in Louisa County that has survived into the present day. […]