John Groom Elementary School
The John Groom Elementary School, in the Mecklenburg County town of South Hill, served as the area’s only public elementary school for African American students from 1950 until 1969, when […]
Town of Surry Historic District
The Town of Surry Historic District encloses a small crossroads community that was first settled in the mid-18th-century and became the Surry County seat in 1797. Surrounded by agricultural and […]
Dewberry Hill
Dewberry Hill in Halifax County began as a one-story-with-garret house, built in the 18th or early 19th century. In the late 1860s, Dr. Thomas Herndon Miles and his wife, Lucie […]
Walters-Moshier House
In the Halifax County town of South Boston, the Walters-Moshier House is a prominent example of the up-scale in-town residences built for the town’s bright leaf tobacco barons. The circa […]
United States Post Office and Court House
The United States Post Office and Court House in downtown Harrisonburg is significant for its association with racial desegregation in public education as the site of judicial rulings directing the […]
Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District
In Fairfax County, the Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District began as a 2,000-acre plantation owned by George Washington that he gave to his ward, Eleanor Parke Custis, and her husband. The acreage […]
Fannie Thompson House
In the Shenandoah Valley, the Fannie Thompson House in Augusta County is the sole unmodified dwelling remaining in what was once a thriving segregated African American neighborhood known as Jack’s […]
Twelfth Street Industrial Historic District
With the completion of the Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike in 1836, the 12th Street corridor became a gateway from western regions to the city of Lynchburg’s commercial heart. In the […]
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and its cemetery were founded in 1870 in Stafford County by formerly enslaved African Americans under the auspices of a benevolent organization working with the Freedmen’s […]
Bethel AME Church and Dallard-Newman House Historic District
The Bethel AME Church and Dallard-Newman House Historic District lies in Harrisonburg’s Newtown, an African American neighborhood settled after the Civil War (see Newtown Cemetery). The church—originally, Bethel United Brethren […]