Arlington Archaeological Site
The Arlington Archaeological Site in Northampton County contains intact deposits from several periods in Virginia history and information essential to expanding knowledge about all of them. Late Woodland (A.D. 900-1607) […]
Fort Huger
Named for Major General Benjamin Huger, commander of Confederate defenses in southeastern Virginia, Fort Huger is located on Hardy’s Bluff above the James River in Isle of Wight County. During […]
Second Tennessee Volunteers Camp
The Second Tennessee Volunteers Camp, in Stafford County, was the location of a winter Confederate States Army camp from September 1861 through February 1862. The archaeological remains of dugout huts […]
Rising Hill Camp
Rising Hill Camp in Prince William County is a well-preserved area of archaeological remains from a Confederate Civil War camp dating sometime between October 1861 and March 1862. Surface features […]
Camp French
Camp French is one of many sites in the region associated with the military campaigns of Union and Confederate forces seeking to control the Potomac River in 1861 and 1862. […]
West Fork Furnace
Although most of the individual components of the West Fork Furnace property in Floyd County lack distinction, collectively they represent an articulated and distinctive system engineered during the mid-19th century […]
Lexington
Situated in woodlands on Mason Neck in southern Fairfax County, Lexington contains archaeological remains that document a nearly pristine record of the original landscape design of a late 18th-century tobacco […]
Bogata
Originally owned by Jacob Strayer, the 165-acre Bogata farm complex marks the rolling countryside of southeastern Rockingham County. First settled in the mid-1800s, Bogata became a prosperous antebellum Shenandoah Valley […]
Fort Chiswell Site
The remains of a succession of settlements at this strategic location along Virginia’s former frontier constitute one of Southwest Virginia’s more significant archaeological complexes. Salvage excavations undertaken in 1976 under […]
Porto Bello
During his short term as Virginia’s last royal governor, Lord Dunmore acquired a York River plantation six miles from Williamsburg called Porto Bello, where he maintained a country home. Here […]
