Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery
The Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery is located south of the village of Rescue at “Macclesfield,” in a wooded area overlooking Ballard’s Creek, in the northern reaches of Isle of […]
Lee’s Mill Earthworks
Lee’s Mill Earthworks in the city of Newport News are some of the best surviving remains of the 12-mile-long Warwick-Yorktown line that delayed the Union advance toward Richmond in 1862. […]
Selwyn
Selwyn stands among Hanover County’s Civil War battlefields and was witness to the events of the war in 1862 and in 1864. The house was used as headquarters and a […]
Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield Historic District at Pamplin Historical Park
Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield Historic District at Pamplin Historical Park contains historic buildings and outbuildings, earthworks and rifle pits, as well as archaeological sites associated with the domestic and military occupation […]
Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery
Butterwood Methodist Church was one of three 18th-century chapels in what became Bath Parish in 1752. Devereux Jarratt, an important figure in the “Great Awakening” became rector of the parish […]
Rectortown Historic District
The Rectortown Historic District recognizes this Fauquier County village that evolved from an 18th-century crossroads into a local rail center during the mid-19th-century. The Virginia House of Burgesses established Rectortown […]
Kinsale Historic District
The Kinsale Historic District in Westmoreland County encompasses a collection of buildings and other resources that reveal this village’s development from the late 18th century through to modern times. Located […]
Point of Rocks
Point of Rocks in southern Chesterfield County takes its name from a nearby 60-foot-high sandstone cliff projecting into the Port Walthall Channel of the Appomattox River. The house was built […]
Advanced Courthouse Road Redoubt
The Advanced Courthouse Road Redoubt was one of four Federal defensive fortifications constructed in early 1863 to protect the approaches to the Union supply depot at Aquia Creek Landing. It […]
Markham Historic District
The Markham Historic District is located on the upper reaches of Goose Creek, an important power source for milling operations in northwestern Fauquier County during the 19th century. The community […]
