Chief Otho S. and Susie P. Nelson House

The Chief Otho S. and Susie P. Nelson House in King and Queen County is significant for its connection to an era of revitalization for Virginia’s Rappahannock Indian Tribe during […]

Bruington Rural Historic District

The Bruington Rural Historic District in King and Queen County is composed of buildings, structures, sites, and landscape features that reveal the community’s evolution from the mid-1700s into the 1960s. The district originated as a […]

Millers Tavern Rural Historic District

The Millers Tavern Rural Historic District covers 3,619 acres on the western end of Essex County, with a small portion of the district extending into King and Queen County.  The […]

Newington Archaeological Site

Newington, the birthplace and boyhood home of Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, contains a rare combination of archaeological and surviving landscape elements derived from this former […]

King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District

Comprised of 17 buildings, the King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District includes the county Courthouse (parts of which date to the Colonial period), an 1860s clerk’s office and jail, […]

King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District

Comprised of 17 buildings, the King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District includes the county Courthouse (parts of which date to the Colonial period), an 1860s clerk’s office and jail, […]

Dixon

Dixon is set amidst a flat landscape of farmland that has remained nearly unchanged for over two hundred years. Located on the east side of the Mattaponi River, the house […]

Northbank

Located along the Mattaponi River, Northbank is a two-and-one-half-story, timber-framed dwelling, begun in 1722 and representative of houses built in Tidewater during the 18th and 19th centuries. Northbank is unusual […]

Marriott School

Created in response to the revised Virginia Constitution of 1902, the Marriott School in King & Queen County tells the story of rural, segregated public education in Virginia, as well […]

Providence Plantation and Farm

Built in 1826, Providence Plantation and Farm boasts one of only a few of the Early Republic-era brick farmhouses that survives in Virginia’s upper Tidewater region. The plantation once included […]