Greenway Rural Historic District
One of Virginia’s most scenic cultural landscapes, the Greenway Rural Historic District contains roughly thirty square miles of mostly connecting historic farms. Unlike other areas of western Virginia, Clarke County […]
Vawter Hall and Old President’s House
The 1908 Vawter Hall and the Old President’s House of 1907 constitute the historic core of Virginia State University, the oldest state-supported college for African Americans in the United States. […]
Azurest South
Azurest South was designed by Amaza Lee Meredith (1895-1984), one of the country’s first black female architects, as her own residence and studio in the Chesterfield County town of Ettrick. […]
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church evokes the struggle by Charlottesville’s African Americans to establish a viable community in the city following emancipation. Black Americans required institutions that were truly their own, […]
Lott Cary Birth Site
For over two centuries this late-18th-century vernacular dwelling, sited in a farm field in Charles City County, has been recognized as the birthplace of Lott Cary (1780-1829), the first Black […]
Liberty Baptist Church
This rural site in Caroline County has been used for religious purposes since 1796, when the Liberty Baptist meeting erected a frame church here. For the first half of the […]
Newtown Historic District
Newtown originated in the late colonial period as a King & Queen County crossroads settlement on the Great Post Road that ran from Williamsburg to Philadelphia. Supporting a long succession […]
Stanton Family Cemetery
Started in 1853, the Stanton Family Cemetery is a very rare surviving burying ground established by free blacks prior to the Civil War. The Stantons were one of the few […]
Saint Paul’s College
The Saul Building, Principal’s Residence, and Memorial Chapel at Saint Paul’s College, in the Brunswick County seat of Lawrenceville, embody the growth of this pioneering, historically African American institution, from […]
Poplar Forest
“The best dwelling house in the state” is how Thomas Jefferson described his Bedford County hermitage of Poplar Forest. Begun in 1806 on land inherited from his wife, and completed […]