Tangier Island Historic District

The Tangier Island Historic District encompasses architectural and archaeological resources on this island that is home to a traditional watermen’s community that is part of Accomack County. Prior to the […]

Chapel Rural Historic District

Covering approximately 11,500 acres of countryside in central Clarke County, the Chapel Rural Historic District contains well-preserved residences and affiliated buildings such as smokehouses, springhouses, garages, sheds, and summer kitchens, […]

Switchback School

Switchback School, also known as Union Hurst School, was completed in 1924 using building plans and money from the Julius Rosenwald Fund to leverage additional financial support from the local […]

Walnut Valley

Located in Surry County’s Chippokes Plantation State Park, Walnut Valley consists of a circa 1770 plantation house, an 1816 slave quarter and an associated archaeological site within a nearly 263-acre […]

Robert Russa Moton Boyhood Home

The Robert Russa Moton Boyhood Home is located on a former plantation and farmstead known as Pleasant Shade in rural Prince Edward County, about 10 miles east of Farmville. Covering […]

Hyde Park

Hyde Park, in Nottoway County, is a former tobacco plantation dating to the latter 1700s. It was purchased in 1938 by Richmond department store owner William B. Thalhimer to create […]

First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church in the Farmville Historic District, founded 1867, emerged as a center for the local black community under the leadership of its pastor, the Reverend L. Francis […]

Stafford Training School

The Stafford Training School was built in 1939 during the Great Depression by the Public Works Administration after local African American citizens formed a “county league” to donate money to […]

Hayden High School

Hayden High School in the city of Franklin was built in 1953. It replaced an overcrowded, African American high school building, that had been constructed in 1906 and was in […]