Grace Church
Grace Church, originally known as York-Hampton Parish Church, was built ca. 1697. It is probably the state’s only remaining colonial structure built of marl, a locally quarried soft material composed […]
Bruton Parish Poorhouse Archaeological Site
The Bruton Parish Poorhouse Archaeological Site in York County consists of the remains of an 18th-century workhouse for indigents built by Williamsburg’s Bruton Parish Church. By the mid-18th century, the […]
Old Stone Church
Old Stone Church exemplifies the sober architecture favored by the 18th-century Scotch-Irish settlers, many of whom came to the Winchester region from Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley. It was built in 1788 […]
Emory and Henry College
Emory and Henry College, founded in 1838 by the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is the oldest college in Southwest Virginia and one of the few colleges of […]
Big Crab Orchard Site
Patented in 1750, the Big Crab Orchard Site in Tazewell County was one of the first European settlements in Southwest Virginia. Parts of the tract were later owned by Morriss […]
Burke’s Garden Central Church and Cemetery
Settlers of German origin migrated from Pennsylvania to Southwest Virginia in the late 18th century, settling in Burke’s Garden, a bowl-shaped valley atop Garden Mountain, now the Burke’s Garden Rural […]
The Old Brick Church
The walls of these romantic ruins in Surry County date from 1754 when the Anglican Southwark Parish vestry completed a brick church to serve the lower part of the parish. […]
Glebe House of Southwark Parish
One of Virginia’s rare collection of glebe houses, this Surry County dwelling was first occupied by the Rev. John Cargill, a leading colonial cleric. Cargill was a delegate to the […]
Glebe Church
The chaste colonial Glebe Church, located east of the village of Driver in Suffolk (formerly Nansemond County), takes its present name from the fact that its parish was one of […]
Stuart Addition Historic District
The Stuart Addition Historic District generally conforms to a tract deeded to the city of Staunton in 1803 by Judge Archibald Stuart. The neighborhood developed gradually but steadily, and was […]
