New Castle Historic District
The secluded mountain community of New Castle preserves one of the Commonwealth’s noted antebellum court complexes. The Craig County courthouse was built in 1851 when New Castle became the county […]
Culpeper Historic District
The Culpeper Historic District in this Piedmont county seat is significant for its architectural cohesiveness and associations with commercial, military, political, and transportation history. Originally known as Fairfax, the town […]
Covington Historic District
What is now the independent city of Covington was laid out along the Jackson River in 1818, and it became the Alleghany County seat in 1822. The Covington Historic District […]
Clifton Forge Commercial Historic District
Originally known as Williamson, the Alleghany County town of Clifton Forge developed in the 1850s in the narrow strip between the Jackson River and the Virginia Central Railroad tracks. The […]
Burwell-Morgan Mill
Located in Clarke County’s Chapel Rural Historic District, the carefully restored, fully operational exhibition Burwell-Morgan Mill is the historic focal point of the tiny town of Millwood. The massive gabled […]
Carter Hall
With its stately architecture and beautifully landscaped park, Carter Hall presents an idealized image of antebellum Southern gentility. The house was erected in the late 1790s for Col. Nathaniel Burwell, […]
Berryville Historic District
Berryville began as a colonial crossroads settlement known as Battletown. It expanded in the early 1800s following the construction of turnpikes linking Berryville to trade between Winchester and Alexandria. The […]
Swift Creek Mill
Milling operations were conducted at this Swift Creek site in Chesterfield County from the mid-17th-century into the 1950s. The present brick Swift Creek Mill structure dates mostly from 1852 when […]
Wallaceton
A prosaic mid-19th-century building, Wallaceton was originally built as a store to serve the employees of the Wallace Company, a lumber company, as well as the residents of Wallaceton, a […]
Wertland Street Historic District
A genteel residential quarter located between the University of Virginia and downtown Charlottesville, the compact Wertland Street Historic District is defined by approximately thirty, mostly ca. 1900, free-standing dwellings. Wertland […]
