Big Spring Baptist Church
A landmark of Montgomery County’s black religious community, the Big Spring Baptist Church was organized with the support of Capt. Charles Schaeffer, founder of the Christiansburg Industrial Institute, a training […]
Prestwould
Sir Peyton Skipwith, the only Virginia-born baronet, moved to his Roanoke River lands in Mecklenburg County following marriage to his second wife, Jean Miller, in 1788. In 1795 he completed […]
Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth
The Manassas Industrial School For Colored Youth was established in 1893 by Jennie Dean, a former slave who believed in the value of vocational education for African American youth. Through […]
Anne Spencer House
During her long and active life, Anne Spencer (1882-1975) was recognized as a lyric poet of considerable talent. For an African American woman to win recognition from her intellectual peers […]
Diamond Hill Historic District
Immediately south of the downtown, Diamond Hill was once one of Lynchburg’s most prestigious residential neighborhoods. It began its development in the 1820s and enjoyed its greatest prosperity at the […]
Court Street Baptist Church
Court Street Baptist Church, located in the Court House Hill/Downtown Historic District, is the mother church of Lynchburg’s Black Baptists and is the most conspicuous landmark of the city’s African […]
Douglass High School
Douglass High School symbolizes the quiet tenacity and sense of purpose maintained by Loudoun County’s African Americans in their determination to secure a high standard of secondary education for their […]
West Point Historic District
Strategically situated where the Pamunkey and Mattaponi rivers join to form the York River, the town of West Point in King William County was originally the site of an Indian […]
Mangohick Church
The simple but dignified colonial Mangohick Church was built ca. 1730-32 as a chapel of ease for St. Margaret’s Parish, but soon became the upper church of St. David’s Parish. […]
Jamestown National Historic Site
Jamestown is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607. The first meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses, held here in 1619, signaled the […]