Dismal Swamp Canal
Named for the vast swamp through which it traverses, the Dismal Swamp Canal is a twenty-two-mile land cut between Deep Creek and the village of South Mills in North Carolina. […]
Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District
Covering some twenty blocks north of the University of Virginia grounds in the city of Charlottesville, the tightly developed Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District neighborhood contains academic, commercial, and residential […]
Piney Grove
The otherwise unprepossessing vernacular dwelling of Piney Grove has had a complicated structural history, making it an instructive example of evolutionary expansion. The earliest portion began as a 1790 log […]
Edgewood and Harrison’s Mill
The storybook Gothic Revival house of Edgewood in Charles City County is an architectural contrast to the area’s noted colonial plantation houses. It was built around 1854 for Richard S. […]
Port Royal Historic District
The tiny Rappahannock River community of Port Royal in Caroline County was a thriving tobacco port during colonial times. Named for Thomas Roy’s tobacco warehouse, the town was established in […]
The Elms
Built by Paul D. Camp, a founder of the Camp Manufacturing Company (late the Union Camp Corporation), The Elms in the city of Franklin stands as a tangible symbol of […]
Franklin Historic District
Franklin arose between 1835 and 1840 as a village at the head of navigation on the Blackwater River. By the mid-19th century, the development of rail transportation and river commerce […]
Cat Rock Sluice of the Roanoke Navigation
The Cat Rock Sluice is one of the country’s best-preserved relics of a rare riverbed navigation system for bateaux. The network of sluices with their associated wing dams and towering […]
Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse in the Buena Vista Downtown Historic District is a relic of the land boom that took place in the central part of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in 1889-91. […]
Southern Seminary Main Building
The several new towns established in the Shenandoah Valley during the land boom of 1889-91 were considered not only as prime industrial and commercial sites but choice recreational areas. The […]
