Places To Visit

Christ Episcopal Church is an active church that served as a hospital during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. The building is a fine example of Virginia's late Federal period architecture while bearing scars from the shelling during the Civil ... Read More

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America 250 is a national celebration marking 250 years since America's founding. It offers a moment to reflect on the country's beginning, present, and future. Artwork helps make visible the diverse and complex history of the nation's earliest ye... Read More

Home to over 30,000 works of art from around the world and an extensive glass art collection of 10,000 pieces spanning over 3,000 years,, the Chrysler Museum of Art is a true statement to Norfolk's vibrant art scene. The museum got its start in 1871 ... Read More

The Powhatan Creek Trail in James City County links to a number of historic sites along its path including the Tomb of the Unknown Patriot Solider of the American Revolution, the Church on the Main and Mainland Farm. The path is accessible to walkers... Read More

Church Quarter is a one-story, log, hall-parlor-plan house that was built about 1843. It remains remarkably intact and unspoiled, a rare survivor of what was once a common house type. Standing on Old Ridge Road, one of the earliest thoroughfares in H... Read More

Civic Math: The Road to 1776 is a weekly educational series leading up to July 4, 2026, exploring how the thirteen colonies moved toward independence. Through a unique combination of mathematics and storytelling, each episode explains how decisions ... Read More

The 109-plus-acre Clem-Kagey Farm is located near the Shenandoah County town of Edinburg. The main house, constructed in 1880 by Hiram C. Clem, is an exceptionally handsome, decorative, and intact example of the vernacular Late Victorian I-houses tha... Read More

The Clermont Foundation preserves the cultural landscape of historic Clermont Farm in the Shenandoah Valley, in partnership with its owner, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR). The Foundation uses the farm’s many historic buildin... Read More

Revolutionary patriot Carter Henry Harrison was the original owner of Clifton. As a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, Harrison wrote the instructions for a declaration of independence from "any Allegiance to his Britannick Majesty," prese... Read More

Clover Forest, is a historic mansion, and former plantation house built starting in 1761 and located in Goochland, Virginia. The mansion lies in a large bend of the James River, and is an authentically restored in a Federal-style with portions of the... Read More

Clover Lea's broad lawns and old trees combine with the porticoed house to present an idealized picture of an antebellum plantation residence. Although the Hanover County structure is not large compared to the Greek Revival houses of the Deep South, ... Read More

Cockram Mill, located near Meadows of Dan, is the oldest historic grist mill complex in Patrick County. The mill dates to about 1885, and is a two- and three-story rectangular frame building on a concrete foundation. It's located adjacent to a concre... Read More

Cockram Mill, located near Meadows of Dan, is the oldest historic grist mill complex in Patrick County. The mill dates to about 1885, and is a two- and three-story rectangular frame building on a concrete foundation. It's located adjacent to a concre... Read More

Cold Harbor National Cemetery was established in 1866 on the site of the Battle of Cold Harbor, an American Civil War engagement. Interments were collected from a 22-mile (35 km) area, taken from the battlefields and field hospital sites of Cold Harb... Read More