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 […]
Montrose
The dwelling at Montrose, in Dinwiddie County, was built as a typical three-bay, dormered, one-and-one-half-story, center-hall-plan farmhouse. It retains much of its historic fabric from its inception through additions typical […]
Stony Creek Plantation
Stony Creek Plantation is likely the oldest building in the county. The original section of the T–shaped frame house is a rare surviving example of a mid-18th-century, center-hall plan, story-and-a-half […]
Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield Historic District at Pamplin Historical Park
Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield Historic District at Pamplin Historical Park contains historic buildings and outbuildings, earthworks and rifle pits, as well as archaeological sites associated with the domestic and military occupation […]
Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery
Butterwood Church and Cemetery was one of three 18th-century chapels in what became Bath Parish in 1752. Devereux Jarratt, an important figure in the “Great Awakening” became rector of the […]
Zehmer Farm
Consisting of a circa 1905 dwelling and 22 historic domestic and agricultural outbuildings, structures, and sites, the Zehmer Farm sits on the outskirts of the Town of McKenney in Dinwiddie […]
Petersburg National Battlefield
The Petersburg National Battlefield Park consists of a vast network of fortifications and entrenchments constructed by both Union and Confederate armies during the siege of the city of Petersburg from […]
Mayfield Cottage
Mayfield Cottage, the oldest brick house in Dinwiddie County, is a classic example of formal, mid-18th-century Virginia architecture. Its distinguishing features include a clipped gable roof, symmetrical five-bay facades, and […]
Rose Bower
Constructed between 1818 and 1826 Rose Bower’s dwelling house is the nucleus of an early 19th-century plantation that has been continuously owned and farmed by one family, the Roses. Some […]
Sappony Church
From 1763 to 1801 Sappony Episcopal Church was served by the Rev. Devereux Jarrett, a proponent of Methodism within the Anglican, and later Episcopal church. Jarrett was one of Virginia’s […]
