Zirkle Mill
Probably dating from the late 18th century, this gristmill on Holmans Creek at the edge of the Shenandoah County village of Forestville was erected by Andrew Zirkle, Sr., and originally […]
Williams-Brown House-Store
This combination commercial and residential building is perhaps the area’s last remaining example of a type once prevalent in towns along the much-traveled Great Road to Kentucky and Tennessee. The […]
Downtown Salem Historic District
Salem’s downtown historic district embraces the core of the present-day city. Within this twenty-five-acre area is the town’s original platted grid, laid out in 1802 along the Great Road by […]
Linville Creek Bridge
The Linville Creek Bridge, on the southern end of the Rockingham County town of Broadway, is Virginia’s only Thacher truss bridge and one of only two surviving examples of its […]
Dayton Historic District
Established in 1833, the Rockingham County town of Dayton is among the most distinctive of several small towns lining the Shenandoah Valley’s former Harrisonburg-Warm Springs Turnpike. The turnpike, and later […]
Bridgewater Historic District
Bridgewater, in Rockingham County, is one of the largest and best-preserved of a string of towns located along the Shenandoah Valley’s former Harrisonburg—Warm Springs Turnpike. It began as a river […]
Kennedy-Wade Mill
Of the supportive industries required by the agrarian society of 19th- and early 20th-century western Virginia, the gristmill was the most essential. The Kennedy-Wade Mill, near Brownsburg, is the only […]
Goshen Land Company Bridge
This lacy metal-truss bridge, with its distinctive thirty-degree skew, was built by the Groton Bridge Company for the Goshen Land and Improvement Company in 1890 when the Shenandoah Valley was […]
Roanoke City Market Historic District
The Roanoke City Market Historic District has served as the primary marketplace for the city and surrounding counties since the late 19th century. The district’s buildings display the full range […]
Roanoke Warehouse Historic District
The Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, also known as Wholesale Row, consists of a block of five warehouses between Norfolk Avenue, S.W. and the railroad tracks, all erected between 1889 and […]
