Salem School
Salem School is a simple, one-story, frame school building of a type once widely found in rural Virginia. It is the sole survivor of seven schools built in Charlotte County […]
Proffit Historic District
The Proffit Historic District is the most intact and well-documented historically African American community in Albemarle County. Founded by freedman Ned Brown in 1871, the small settlement became a village […]
Fort Pocahontas
Fort Pocahontas, a Civil War fort on the James River in Charles City County, is the best-preserved site in Virginia associated with African American Federal troops in combat. The United […]
Chellowe
Chellowe, a three-part Palladian house in Buckingham County, was begun circa 1820 and finished about 1840. Its elegant superimposed portico, supported by four pairs of slender Doric columns on each […]
Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church, built in 1894, is a Gothic Revival brick building with decorative buttresses defining each bay. The Chesterfield County building features a steep, slate-covered gable roof. Many founding […]
Maple Springs
Maple Springs is a rare surviving example of an early yeoman Piedmont farm and is located in Culpeper County. Important for its relatively unchanged condition, the building consists of three […]
Armstead T. Johnson High School
Located near Montross in Westmoreland County, Armstead T. Johnson High School was built in 1937. The school was one of the first high schools built for African Americans on the […]
Jackson Blacksmith Shop
The Jackson Blacksmith Shop is the last blacksmith’s shop surviving in still predominately rural Goochland County. It represents three generations of an African American family’s blacksmithing tradition in the county […]
Maggie L. Walker High School
Named in honor of Maggie Lena Walker, African American entrepreneur and the nation’s first black woman bank president, the school was designed by the firm of Carneal, Johnston and Wright […]
Number 18 School (Marshall)
Number 18 School, located roughly one mile east of the town of Marshall, is the only unaltered one-room schoolhouse surviving in Fauquier County. Built in 1887 on land donated by […]