Berkleytown Historic District

The Berkleytown Historic District was a traditionally African American community located in the Town of Ashland in Hanover County, which was developed in response to a segregation ordinance issued by […]

Brown Grove Rural Historic District

The Brown Grove Rural Historic District is a historically African American community located south of the Town of Ashland. The district’s boundaries encompass two discontiguous areas near the geographic center […]

Macmurdo House

The Macmurdo House, centrally located within the Ashland Historic District, remains one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture—and one of the least altered mid-19th-century dwellings—in the town. To […]

Hickory Hill Slave and African American Cemetery

Part of a former plantation in Hanover County, the Hickory Hill Slave and African American Cemetery is important for its direct association with the historical experience of blacks in Virginia […]

Ellington

Owner and Baptist minister, the Rev. Thomas H. Fox, built Ellington, a brick Greek Revival house and a brick schoolhouse beside it, in 1839 in Hanover County. Fox operated Fox […]

Civil War-Era National Cemeteries (MPD)

This Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPD) facilitates the individual nomination of Civil War-era cemeteries. Many contain the fine architectural examples of a prototype design of lodges that were executed in […]

The Tavern at Old Church

The Tavern at Old Church is an important example of a rural Federal-style tavern complex, an increasingly rare but once-common building type in rural Virginia. The property formed the nucleus […]

Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls

The Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls – most recently known as the Barrett Learning Center – arose in 1915 in response to an early-20th-century juvenile reform movement in […]

Ashland Jefferson Davis UDC Highway Marker

The Ashland Jefferson Davis Highway Marker in Hanover County, is one of 16 granite memorials in Virginia commissioned and erected along U.S. Rte. 1 between 1927 and 1947 by the […]