Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, the last of the rock-faced churches associated with Rev. Childress to be built, was constructed in Floyd County in 1954, just two years before Childress’s […]
Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located on the south side of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Fancy Gap in northern Patrick County, within a few hundred feet of the […]
Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Buffalo Mountain Church and Cemetery is located on the border of Carroll and Floyd counties. This was the Rev. Robert Childress’s first church after his graduation from Union Theological Seminary […]
Spring Bank
Spring Bank, known also as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, was built in 1793 for John Stark Ravenscroft and his wife, Anne, a member of the Burwell and Carter families, Tidewater […]
St. John’s Episcopal Church
A contributing resource within the the Wytheville Historic District, St. John’s Episcopal Church is also individually listed in the registers in recognition of its importance in the Virginia Episcopal Church’s […]
Union Church and Cemetery
The approximate three-acre property containing Union Church and Cemetery in the Falmouth Historic District, includes the surviving narthex of the brick ca. 1819 Union Church, the remaining vestige of the […]
Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse
The Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse occupies a site on the Woodlawn Tract in southern Fairfax County, purchased in 1846 by Delaware Valley Quakers for division into small farms. The symbolism of […]
St. John’s Lutheran Church and Cemetery
During the late 18th century, German settlers were concentrated near the present town of Wytheville, the seat of Wythe County. In 1798 St. John’s Lutheran Church, recently organized, adopted a […]
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
Forty-two well-preserved German-style gravestones, similar to those found in lesser numbers and in poorer condition in several other outlying Lutheran cemeteries around Wytheville, survive in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church […]
Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery
On a steep hillside looking over the countryside and mountains of western Wythe County, this early burying ground has a large collection of traditional German gravestones. Approximately fifty monuments within […]
