Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District
Covering approximately 16,200 acres in western Albemarle County and a small corner of Nelson and southeastern Augusta counties, the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District was first settled by Europeans with the […]
Jefferson School
Jefferson School, completed in 1926 and expanded in 1952, provided primary and secondary education for African American students in the Alleghany County community of Clifton Forge from 1926 until 1965, […]
Greenfield
Greenfield, in Botetourt County, is the site of a plantation established in the mid-18th century by Colonel William Preston. He served under George Washington during a 1756 survey of the […]
Cedar Grove
Cedar Grove is a Greek Revival-style house in Mecklenburg County, built circa 1838. Its design is unusual for a Virginia plantation house, consisting of a hip-roofed main block on a […]
Central State Hospital Chapel
The Chapel was built in 1904 as part of the Central State Hospital, which opened in 1885 in Dinwiddie County as a segregated facility for mentally ill African Americans. The […]
Worsham High School
The Worsham High School is significant for its association with the struggle to desegregate Prince Edward County’s public schools, when the county closed its schools rather than integrate them during […]
Daughters of Zion Cemetery
The Daughters of Zion Cemetery is named for the African American mutual aid society that purchased the land and established the cemetery in the city of Charlottesville in 1873. An […]
Portsmouth Community Library
The Portsmouth Community Library was built in 1945 to serve Portsmouth’s African American citizens, who then comprised about half of the city’s population. While the city founded its library system […]
T.C. Walker House
The T.C. Walker House, in Gloucester County, was Thomas Calhoun Walker’s residence during 53 of his 72 years of service to enhance the lives of fellow African Americans. Built in […]
Historic and Architectural Resources of Hobson Village MPD
Hobson was settled in 1865 by a group of African Americans who fled the Virginia Peninsula between the James and York rivers and settled at Barrett’s Neck in Nansemond County, […]