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 […]
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 […]