Trinity Episcopal Church
With its ascetic medievalism, Staunton’s Trinity Episcopal Church in the Newtown Historic District well demonstrates the more serious side of mid-19th-century America’s Gothic Revival. Built in 1855 as the third […]
Newtown Historic District
Begun in 1781 as a twenty-five-acre annexation known as the Newtown Addition, and since expanded, the Newtown Historic District in Staunton is a large and varied neighborhood whose development spans […]
Southwest Virginia Holiness Association Camp Meeting
The Southwest Virginia Holiness Association Camp Meeting complex in the city of Salem had its origins in the Holiness movement, a mid-19th-century offshoot of Methodism. Adherents of the movement dedicated […]
Old Russell County Courthouse
The second courthouse of Russell County is one of the earliest public buildings in Southwest Virginia. The simple stone structure was built in 1799 to replace the first courthouse, a […]
Joseph Funk House
Joseph Funk (1777-1862) was the grandson of Henry Funk, the first Mennonite bishop in America, and the son of Henry Funk, Jr., founder of the “Funkite” branch of the Mennonite […]
John K. Beery Farm
In a secluded valley in the Linville Creek area of Rockingham County, the John K. Beery Farm complex is one of the most complete early rural homesteads in the region. […]
Bethlehem Church
Built in 1844-45 by the local stonemason Jeremiah Clemens, Bethlehem Church is the oldest stone church in Rockingham County and the second church of a local Quaker meeting. With its […]
Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church
Though considerably altered and enlarged during its more than two centuries of service, this stone meetinghouse, built in 1755 in Rockbridge County, is the second oldest Presbyterian house of worship […]
Liberty Hall Site
These gaunt ruins are the remains of Liberty Hall Academy, the predecessor of Washington and Lee University. In 1749 Augusta Academy, the first school of consequence west of the Blue […]
St. John’s Episcopal Church
The parish of St. John’s Episcopal Church traces its origins to the 1830s when the Rev. Nicholas Hamner Cobbs of Bedford began ministering in the Roanoke Valley. With Roanoke’s rapid […]
