Petersburg Trailways Bus Station
The Trailways Bus Station in downtown Petersburg was the site of civil rights protests and sit-ins that occurred during 1960 and 1961. As one of the stops on the historic […]
Cornland School
The Cornland School in the City of Chesapeake is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1903 that served African American students in the Pleasant Grove School District in the former Norfolk […]
The Meadow Historic District (Meadow Farm)
The Meadow Historic District, in Caroline County, is comprised of stables and agricultural buildings associated with the thoroughbred horse breeding and racing operation established by Christopher Thompkins Chenery, beginning in […]
Kenwood
Kenwood, in Gloucester County, began in the early 1800s as a simplified Federal-style house. It is located near the “Greate Road” (today’s U.S. Route 17), a corridor of increasing economic […]
Josephine City Historic District
Josephine City Historic District, a historically African American community in the Clarke County seat of Berryville, was founded by freedmen in 1870 on a 31-acre parcel conveyed by Ellen McCormick, […]
Newtown Cemetery
The Newtown Cemetery is significant for its role in the development of the city of Harrisonburg’s African American community. Newtown, which arose soon after the Civil War, was located on […]
Buckingham Training School
The site of the Rosenwald-funded Buckingham Training School, in the Buckingham County town of Dillwyn, was constructed during Virginia’s era of racial segregation. Known today as Stephen J. Ellis Memorial […]
Booker T. Washington High School
Staunton’s Booker T. Washington High School opened in 1936 as the only high school for African Americans in the city until it closed in 1966, when Staunton integrated its public […]
Pierce Street Historic District
The Pierce Street Historic District, a historically black residential neighborhood south of Lynchburg’s central business district, covers about five acres. Following use as a military camp and hospital during the […]
Mechanicsville Historic District
Danville’s Mechanicsville Historic District emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a distinctive, ethnically mixed neighborhood of tradesmen, educators, skilled workers, and laborers associated with Danville’s textile […]