Honaker Commercial Historic District

The Honaker Commercial Historic District, in Russell County, encompasses the core of this “boom town” that arose in a small valley at the juncture of a major rail line and […]

Boyd Tavern

Albemarle County’s Boyd Tavern served travelers along Three Chopt Road from circa 1825 to 1937. The current building likely was constructed between 1825 and 1840 on the site of an […]

Foster Falls Historic District

Located within New River Trail State Park in Wythe County, the 16-acre Foster Falls Historic District recalls southwest Virginia’s iron ore industry. The historic district contains much of the commercial-industrial […]

Bruin’s Slave Jail

Bruin’s Slave Jail is a Federal-style brick dwelling constructed in Alexandria about 1819 for John Longden, who sold the property in 1844 to Joseph Bruin, a slave dealer. Bruin used […]

Marion Historic District

The Marion Historic District incorporates the town of Marion, which was established in 1832 as the county seat of Smyth County. The large district includes the full range of late-19th- […]

Downtown Chilhowie Historic District

The Downtown Chilhowie Historic District is a small commercial center along the Interstate 81 corridor in southwest Virginia’s Smyth County. The advent of the railroad in the mid-19th-century stimulated the […]

East Radford Historic District

The East Radford Historic District is a historic residential and commercial area exhibiting the 19th- and early-20th-century development of a regional transportation hub and industrial center. Residential, commercial, transportation-related, and […]

Evergreen (Callaway-Deyerle House)

Evergreen, also known as the Callaway-Deyerle House, is located along the rich bottomlands of the Blackwater River five miles west of the Franklin County seat of Rocky Mount. Evergreen serves […]

Provost

Provost, an early-19th-century frame house in Powhatan County, was first known as Oakville. The house sits at the intersection of two roads: one was an early stagecoach route from Richmond […]

Lawrenceville Historic District

Lawrenceville Historic District includes most of the town that has developed around the Brunswick County seat, established in 1814. Much of that growth was directly related to the coming of […]