Every place has a story
Houses, farms, churches and main streets, told place by place: what the records say, what the old maps show, and what the people who knew them remember.
Did you know?Stone Chimneys Symbolize Lost Mountain Homes
- Houses
- Park tracts
Places
- Charlottesville, Virginia
1,656 buildings in 12 historic districts: Albemarle County Courthouse, Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse, Fifeville and Tonsler Neighborhoods, Fry's Spring, Martha Jefferson, North Belmont Neighborhood, Oakhurst-Gildersleeve Neighborhood, Ridge Street, Rugby Road-University Corner, Wertland Street, West Main Street, Woolen Mills Village.
- Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
3,087 land tracts taken for the park in the 1920s and 1930s, in 8 counties.
- Staunton, Virginia
939 buildings in 5 historic districts: Beverley, Gospel Hill, Newtown, Stuart Addition, Wharf Area.
- Waynesboro, Virginia
522 buildings in 3 historic districts: Downtown, Port Republic Road, Tree Streets.
Remember a place?
A house, a store, a church, a school, or somewhere that’s gone: the records only tell part of the story. Share what you remember, or an old photograph.