Dr. Edwin Bancroft and Mary Ellen Henderson House
The Henderson House in the Northern Virginia city of Falls Church was the home of influential civil rights advocates Edwin Bancroft “E.B.” Henderson and his wife, Mary Ellen Meriwether Henderson. […]
Clifton Forge Residential Historic District
The Clifton Forge Residential Historic District occupies 174 acres of this Alleghany County town’s original 1890 plat map and centers on the core concentration of housing that is associated with […]
Armstrong Elementary School
Lynchburg’s Armstrong Elementary School was built for African American students during Virginia’s era of segregated education. Constructed just prior to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board […]
Lovettsville Historic District
The Lovettsville Historic District in Loudoun County includes the town’s core, and several settlement-era cemeteries and a church on its perimeter. Settled by German immigrants in the late 1700s, the […]
Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery
The Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery is one of the only known burial grounds in the U.S. to be established and administered by the federal government for the interment of African […]
Fifth Street Historic District
Lynchburg’s Fifth Street Historic District, located southwest of the city’s central business area, arose as a significant African American commercial area during the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. In […]
Barrett-Chumney House
The Barrett-Chumney House was built in 1823 by Thomas Barrett in an elegant Federal style with stylish architectural details as the seat of a small tobacco plantation in Amelia County. […]
East Hill Cemetery
East Hill Cemetery, established in 1857, straddles the border between Tennessee and Virginia in the city of Bristol. Originally known as City Cemetery and closely associated with the city’s early […]
Virginia University of Lynchburg
Virginia University of Lynchburg is the oldest institution of higher education in Lynchburg, and the first associated with African American education. It was incorporated as Lynchburg Baptist Seminary in 1888, […]
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 […]