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Winchester, Virginia
Abram's Delight, a limestone house built in 1754, is the oldest house in Winchester and is now a historic house museum. Staff and local…
Surry, Virginia
Bacon's Castle in Surry County is a brick house built in the mid-1600s and named for Bacon's Rebellion of 1676. It is a Preservation…
Leesburg, Virginia
The Battle of Ball's Bluff, fought October 21, 1861, was a Union defeat in which many soldiers drowned trying to escape down the bluff into…
Abingdon, Virginia
The Barter Theatre in Abingdon opened in 1933, when founder Robert Porterfield began accepting produce in exchange for tickets during the…
King George, Virginia
Belle Grove at Port Conway on the Rappahannock River is the birthplace of President James Madison, who was born on this land in 1751, and…
Bristow, Virginia
Brentsville's courthouse and 1850 jail are a Prince William County historic site. Lore includes the 1872 shooting of attorney James Clark…
Clifton, Virginia
The Colchester Overpass, a railroad bridge over Colchester Road near Clifton, is known as Bunny Man Bridge for an urban legend of a man in…
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The Cavalier Hotel, opened in 1927 on a hill above Virginia Beach, hosted presidents and entertainers and remains an operating historic…
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Chatham Manor, a Georgian house built around 1771 on a bluff across the Rappahannock from Fredericksburg, served as a Union headquarters…
Richmond, Virginia
Ghost tours tell of disembodied screams and train whistles near Church Hill Tunnel, and some say that in early October you can hear the…
Richmond, Virginia
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond holds the largest collection of Poe's belongings and is housed around the Old Stone House, among the…
Hampton, Virginia
Fort Monroe has a long list of reported apparitions: Jefferson Davis, held here as a prisoner after the Civil War, is said to walk the…
Alexandria, Virginia
Gadsby's Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, begun in 1785, hosted George Washington and other founders and is now a city museum beside a…
Williamsburg, Virginia
The Governor's Palace, home of Virginia's royal governors from the 1720s, was rebuilt in the 1930s on its original foundations as part of…
Hanover, Virginia
Hanover Tavern in Hanover County has stood in some form since 1733 and in its present building since 1791, and Patrick Henry married the…
Richmond, Virginia
Hollywood Cemetery, founded in 1849 on a hill above the James River, is the burial place of presidents James Monroe and John Tyler,…
Williamsburg, Virginia
The King's Arms Tavern is a restaurant in Colonial Williamsburg's historic area, serving period-style meals in a rebuilt 18th-century…
Alexandria, Virginia
The Lee-Fendall House in Old Town Alexandria, built in 1785, was home to members of the Lee family for decades and later to labor leader…
Manassas, Virginia
Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves the grounds of the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861 and the Second Battle in August…
Abingdon, Virginia
The Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon began as a private home in 1832, became Martha Washington College for women, served as a hospital for…
Petersburg, Virginia
Pamplin Historical Park is a 424-acre site with a National Historic Landmark battlefield from the 1865 Union breakthrough at Petersburg,…
Williamsburg, Virginia
The Peyton Randolph House in Colonial Williamsburg, home of the first president of the Continental Congress, is one of the historic area's…
Alexandria, Virginia
The Ramsay House at the foot of King Street, built by town founder William Ramsay in the 1700s and now Alexandria's visitor center, is a…
Gloucester, Virginia
Rosewell was among the grandest houses of colonial Virginia, built by Mann Page in the early 1700s on the York River, and it was destroyed…