A Walking Tour of Fairfax, Virginia (Look Up, America!)

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Stop by Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center for some holiday cheer. Enjoy free seasonal music and refreshments while shopping for those special Fairfax and Virginia gifts, including the White House Christmas Ornament, honoring President Harry S. They will explore individual stories, gender roles and military culture of the era. Saturday, October 27 —Historic Blenheim. When watching the portrayals of Civil War medicine it can be hard to know which is which.

Rewatch some notable scenes, and separate the medical and historical basis for the drama from the "TV magic. Talks, tours and new discoveries. Learn about the City's acquisition of the historic site, preservation and restoration updates, and new discoveries! Tours will be offered in to the house at Noon, 1pm, and 2pm.

Talks, gallery exhibitions, including the replica attic, refreshments and activities will be in the Civil War Interpretive Center. How much did Mosby know, and was he complicit in an attempt to murder the President of the United States? In his new book, author Dave Goetz offers new insights and focuses on numerous attempts to capture or kill Abraham Lincoln and is the first to write a book considering Mosby as an integral part of the Lincoln conspiracies.

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Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McLean's house, now a national park facility and open for self-guided tours.

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Adjacent is the Appomattox Court House, which houses the two-floor visitors center and contains artifacts and informational panels documenting the buildup to the April 9th surrender. Two slide programs are shown at the seat theater, located next to the visitors center. The park also includes 25 other period structures. Not far from the original Jamestowne site lies this living history park, which contains a reconstructed fort, an armory, church, and Powhatan Indian village. A 30,square-foot museum exhibits educational panels, films, and 17th-century muskets, swords, and Indian armaments, as well as artifacts from the African slave trade.

Costumed interpreters operate throughout the settlement. Visitors can climb aboard the fully operational 17th-century reproduction vessels Discovery, Godspeed, and Susan Constant, docked onsite. The remains of the fort, England's first permanent colony in the New World, sits on a acre island in the James River. A new 7,square-foot "Archaearium" enables visitors to look through special viewers and see a virtual 17th-century landscape.

Some of the more than 1 million artifacts recovered from the site, including tools and musical instruments, are also on view. On the grounds, visitors can see the ruins of the first glass furnace in North America, as well as a s brick church. Costumed interpreters guide living history tours of the site in the summer.

General admission tours take two hours and explore the founding of the school and its historic structures, such as the Sir Christopher Wren Building, designed by the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Great Hopes Plantation, a living history reproduction of a southern tobacco farm, features dramatic and interactive presentations on the African American slave experience.

Themed walking tours and special programs include "Historic Trades," a look into 20 types of 18th-century trades, and "Revolutionary City," which explores life in Williamsburg during the American Revolution.

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Several advance pass options are available for purchase online. This 25,square-foot museum examines the successful patriot siege of British forces at Yorktown, the Revolutionary War's decisive final battle. The "Witness to Revolution" gallery presents 10 primary-source war accounts, while the "Yorktown's Sunken Fleet" exhibit features artifacts from the Betsy, sunk during the siege. Costumed interpreters fire muskets and tend to crops in an outdoor Continental army encampment and s farm.

On October 19, , Gen. George Washington after unsuccessfully trying to establish a British port at Yorktown. The Encampment and Battlefield Road tours pass through original redoubts and Washington's headquarters. The visitors center features a minute film and a reconstructed section of a gun deck. This colonial plantation served as a training ground during the War of and later as a Confederate hospital. Valued for its onsite freshwater spring, visitors can explore a Civil War-era battlefield and cemetery and take a minute guided tour through the home, which has been restored to its appearance, complete with period furniture and a reproduction of former owner Humphrey Harwood Curtis's doctor's office.

HISTORIC HOMES OF FAIRFAX

Virginian tobacco planter Richard D. Lee completed this Italianate mansion in only three years before Confederate Gen.

John Magruder seized it for his headquarters during the Peninsula Campaign. Thirty-minute guided tours lead visitors through seven period rooms furnished with 19th-century decorations. Lee helped to supervise this fort's final three years of construction in , although the site's earliest fortification dates back to and the settling of the Jamestown colony.

The fort's imposing six-sided ramparts rise above the only moat remaining in the United States, protecting the entrance to Hampton Roads in the Civil War. Inside, visitors can explore casemates and bombproof chambers that once contained the cell where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was imprisoned for treason after the war. Ninety-minute guided tours lead through military exhibits, ramparts, and the Chapel of the Centurion, the Army's oldest wooden structure still in use for religious services.

Sitting on a five-acre manmade island in the Chesapeake Bay, formerly known as Rip-Raps, the fort controlled the entrance to the harbor of Hampton Roads and the James River during the Civil War. Washington Bridge to the island, where interpreters discuss the crucial role played by the fort during the war. Visitors can climb through open ramparts and view the bay and Virginia coast. The only harbor fort remaining of the 19 authorized by George Washington in , it protected Norfolk during the War of and Civil War. The four-acre site includes the "Black Hole" dungeon, where soldiers awaited court-martial, officers' quarters bearing Confederate graffiti, a restored carpenter's shop, a navy magazine with four-foot brick walls, and a guardhouse.

Norfolk's maritime science museum features exhibits spanning more than two centuries of naval history in the strategic Hampton Roads region. Moored on the grounds of the museum, the foot, 20th-century battleship Wisconsin's "Wisky Walk" has displays that explore its three tours of duty from to and such artifacts as a inch shell. Founded in , America's oldest and largest shipyard peaked with more than 43, workers during World War II. The museum features exhibits of 19th-century model ships, military artifacts, and displays highlighting the history of Portsmouth.

Visitors can board and explore the lightship Portsmouth, which served as a navigational guide along Hampton Roads for 48 years. Sitting on a acre park, this 60,square-foot museum celebrates sea-faring history with extensive galleries, displays, and exhibits featuring more than 35, international maritime artifacts, including navigational instruments and maps. Navy military ships, including the helm of an Axis submarine.

The Crabtree Collection of 2, miniature ships illustrates the evolution of boat-building. Patrick Henry, the Revolutionary War patriot who became governor of Virginia, lived here from to The simple home, reconstructed on the original site using paintings and plans, is furnished with authentic 18th-century pieces and features a portion of Henry's original law office.

Visitors can also see a carriage house, smoke-house, slave cabin, and the kitchen and cook's quarters, in addition to a museum that has exhibits on the man who proclaimed, "Give me liberty or give me death! In Thomas Jefferson laid the foundation for this unusual octagonal Palladian house, which he designed as a personal idealistic architectural delight and a refuge from bustling Monticello.

In minute guided tours, visitors can travel through the dining room and bedrooms, later exploring the kitchen and lower wing on a self-guided tour. Author and statesman Booker T. Washington spent the first nine years of his life as a slave on James Burroughs's acre tobacco farm. Visitors can see the reconstructed plantation buildings, including a slave cabin, smokehouse, and kitchen, on minute guided and self-guided tours. This four-story, sandstone and limestone mansion in Big Stone Gap was built in for Virginia Attorney General Rufus Ayers, who hoped to exploit the area's rich iron ore and coal deposits.

The museum features exhibits on the pioneer stories of westward migration and life during the early boom and bust era of the late s. Visitors can tour the excavated original site as well as a acre re-created village, featuring wigwams, a lodge, and a museum. Costumed guides demonstrate how these Indians lived and worked. Built by Revolutionary War veteran William Preston in , this colonial plantation home served as a nexus of the area's social and political scene for nearly years. On minute guided tours, visitors can see the winter kitchen, children's bedroom, school-room, and parlor.

Consisting of the Great Wagon Road, Fincastle Turnpike, and Carolina Road, this mile section of historic Wilderness Road winds over the migration routes used by European settlers as they moved south during the late 18th century. In George Washington first surveyed this story limestone natural feature, which would become one of the oldest tourist destinations in America. Thomas Jefferson acquired the site in Visitors can tour through the Monacan Indian Living History Village, wax museum, toy museum, and the Natural Bridge caverns, then take a quarter-mile walk to the bridge.

This 50,square-foot museum features 11 exhibit spaces on the art and history of the Shenandoah Valley, including the R. Visitors can also tour the Glen Burnie House and the Chinese, parterre, and herb gardens on the six-acre grounds. Philip Sheridan's heroic counterattack at Middletown on the grounds of the Belle Grove plantation on October 19, , secured a great Union victory—and built political capital for President Lincoln that helped him win reelection.

Visitors can go on minute tours of the manor, grounds, and garden. Franz Sigel's veteran line of Union troops at New Market. Visitors can explore the Hall of Valor Museum on the institute's grounds, see Civil War uniforms, weapons, and photographs, and watch the minute Emmy Award-winning film, Field of Lost Shoes. Six working farms dating from the late s are spread across this acre, living history museum.

Structures include a fully functional Irish forge brought over from the Old World and two relocated 19th-century Virginia farms. Visitors can observe or assist costumed interpreters as they cook, garden, and work in the fields. This three-story refurbished chateau-style mansion houses a research library and seven exhibit galleries that document Wilson's life before and during his two terms as president.

The adjacent Greek Revival manse, the birthplace of the 28th president, features his original wooden crib and is open for self-guided tours.

Located at the southern end of the Virginia Military Institute's parade ground, this castellated Gothic Revival museum opened in to honor its most famous alumnus with a "Soldier of Peace" gallery, documenting his evolution from a young lieutenant to five-star general during and after World War II. Exhibits also include uniforms, a jeep, a minute narrated map on World War II, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Marshall for his postwar work rehabilitating Europe. While tenured as a professor of artillery tactics and physics at Virginia Military Institute from until , Thomas Jonathan Jackson and his wife, Mary Anna Morrison, lived in this two-story brick colonial home.

A visit opens in the front hall with a video on Jackson's day-to-day life in Lexington and follows with a minute guided tour through the kitchen, parlor, study, bedroom, and dining room. This museum houses one of the largest collections of railroad cars, engines, and associated artifacts in the country. Visitors can see Hocking Valley Railway engineer drawings, valuation maps, and rolling stock collection pieces including an F-7 diesel locomotive.

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Gadsby's Tavern Opened in , the tavern provided the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with food, drink, and rest. Manassas National Battlefield Park On July 21, , the first major land battle of the Civil War occurred here at the junction of two rail lines. Oatlands Plantation Founded as a wheat plantation by John Carter in , this 3,square-foot estate became the center of a flourishing agricultural enterprise, surrounded by a mill complex, and acres of vineyards and fields.

Back to Top Fredericksburg Estates and Battlefields Historic Kenmore Home to George Washington's sister, Betty, and her husband, Virginia merchant Fielding Lewis, their Georgian mansion has retained its lavishly appropriate period furnishings. George Washington Birthplace National Monument Based on drawings and archaeological evidence, Wakefield National Memorial Association has re-created the main house in which George Washington lived until age three when fire burned it down.

Scotchtown Virginia's first governor, Patrick Henry, his wife, Sarah, and their six children lived in this colonial home between and , harvesting tobacco on the acre plantation. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Encompassing four major Civil War battlefields—Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Wilderness, and Chancellorsville—this 8,acre military park contains a visitors center at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, shelters with informational material staffed by park historians, and Historic Ellwood and Chatham Manor, the latter having served as the Union headquarters and hospital.

Back to Top Colonial Charlottesville University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia because "it is safer to have the whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Founding father Thomas Jefferson spent half his life building and modifying Monticello, his room mountaintop Palladian masterpiece, with its 6,volume library and elegant, columned Southwest Portico.

Michie Tavern Built in as a country inn, the tavern building was relocated to Charlottesville in Ash Lawn-Highland America's fifth president, James Monroe, built his family estate two and a half miles from Jefferson's Monticello in James Madison's Montpelier Apart from his two presidential terms, James Madison and his wife, Dolley, lived in this room manor house, which is currently under restoration. Tuckahoe Plantation Although the prominent Randolph family built this plantation in the early 18th century, it is largely remembered as the boyhood home of President Thomas Jefferson. Hollywood Cemetery High on bluffs overlooking the rapids of the James River, this acre cemetery was designed in by Philadelphia architect John Notman to commemorate the spot where Capt.

Shirley Plantation Virginia's first plantation, founded by English settler Edward Hill in , has been home to 11 generations of Hills and Carters, including Gen. American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Housed within the original walls of the Tredegar Gun Factory on the Richmond riverfront, this new center offers interactive exhibits on the Civil War, including a film outlining the causes of the war. Virginia State Capitol Designed in by Thomas Jefferson, who modeled it after the Roman temple Maison Carree in Nimes, France, this newly renovated building continues to serve as the state legislative center.

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Valentine Richmond History Center Located in downtown Richmond, the Wickham house now serves as a museum that features 10 displays on the city's history, including "Settlement to Streetcar Suburbs" and the Edward V. John Marshall House The fourth chief justice's brick Federal-style home remains one of the last buildings from the colonial period that still stands within downtown Richmond. Richmond National Battlefield Park This square-mile park encompasses 13 different sites related to four major campaigns, including the Overland and —65 Richmond-Petersburg actions, where Grant and Lee clashed for the first time after three years of conflict.

Jamestown Settlement Not far from the original Jamestowne site lies this living history park, which contains a reconstructed fort, an armory, church, and Powhatan Indian village.

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Historic Jamestowne The remains of the fort, England's first permanent colony in the New World, sits on a acre island in the James River. Yorktown Victory Center This 25,square-foot museum examines the successful patriot siege of British forces at Yorktown, the Revolutionary War's decisive final battle. Yorktown Battlefield On October 19, , Gen. Endview Plantation This colonial plantation served as a training ground during the War of and later as a Confederate hospital.

Fort Norfolk The only harbor fort remaining of the 19 authorized by George Washington in , it protected Norfolk during the War of and Civil War. Hampton Roads Naval Museum and Battleship Wisconsin Norfolk's maritime science museum features exhibits spanning more than two centuries of naval history in the strategic Hampton Roads region.

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