Sites with Civil War interest:

• A.P. Hill Boyhood Home
  The home of Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  The home of Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill who lived in the original portion of this house from age seven until 1842.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Adams County Courthouse
  An historic structure in Gettysburg, PA
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  The courthouse is over 125 years old and reflects the rich heritage of the town and battlefield.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Antietam National Battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Washington County, MD
  The Battle of Antietam was part of what is known as the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Find out more about the people, places and events that are part of the campaign that changed America.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Arcadia
  An historic mansion
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  This 45-room mansion overlooks the Monocacy Battlefield
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery
  The site of the largest Civil War battle in the Leesburg area
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Ball’s Bluff battlefield is the site of Loudoun County’s first Civil War battle. Most of the actual battlefield has been preserved and incorporated into the 223-acre Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Regional Park.
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• Beverley's Mill (also known as Chapman Mill)
  Historic gristmill and battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  The mill was believed to be the tallest grist mill in the United States and was built of stone in 1742.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Brandy Station Battlefield
  Site of the largest Civil War cavalry battle.
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  The Battlefield is the site of the largest cavalry battle fought during the Civil War and was considered the opening engagement for the Gettysburg Campaign.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Brentmoor
  An historic home owned by John Mosby
  Closed to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  This classic Italian Villa-style dwelling was built in 1859-61 and is described as "a simple, rational, convenient, and economic dwelling for the southern part of the Union." The house was purchased by John Singleton Mosby, the Confederate ranger, in 1875.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Bristoe Station Battlefield
  A Civil War battlefield near Manassas, VA
  Closed to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  This Civil War battle on October 14, 1863, allowed the Federals to continued their withdrawal to Centreville unmolested.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Buckland Historic District
  Historic town Established in 1798
  Open to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  Established in 1798 as the first inland town in the county, it is significant historically and architecturally as a representative of the small, mill-oriented communities that characterized much of the region from this date to the mid-nineteenth century. The 19-acre Buckland Historic District is located on both sides of Route 29 near the Fauquier County border.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Burgandine House
  This log house was standing in 1749
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This log house is covered outside by clapboard. It was standing in 1749 when Culpeper County came into being by separation from Orange County.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Cedar Mountain Battlefield
  Civil War battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  The Battle of Cedar Mountain took place on August 9, 1862. The importance of the battle is often debated but has been described as a crucial preliminary battle in the Second Manassas campaign.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Culpeper Historic District
  Significant for its architectural cohesiveness
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This county-seat town is significant for its architectural cohesiveness and associations with commercial, military, political, and transportation history.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Culpeper National Cemetery
  Active cemetary for war veterans
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  Culpeper National Cemetery was established in April 1867 in a county that may have seen more Civil War combat than any other in Virginia.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• David Wills House
  Site of the final edits of the Gettysburg Address
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  President Lincoln stayed here on the eve of his Gettysburg Address and this is where he did the final edits to one of his greatest speeches.
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• Dobbin House
  Civil War hospital and possible underground railroad stop
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  Built by a Scots-Irish immigrant and Presbyterian minister around 1776, the house purportedly sheltered freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. It served as a hospital during the Civil War.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Exchange Hotel
  Played an important role in transportation history
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  This Gordonsville landmark is a forerunner of the large railroad hotels that played an important role in the transportation history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Frederick Historic District
  18th and 19th century architecture and historic sites
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The district offers 18th and 19th century architecture (including its famous clustered spires), historic sites, specialty shops, restaurants, and cultural arts offerings.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
  The Bloodiest Landscape in North America
  Open to the public. Located in Spotsylvania County, VA
  Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania - more than 85,000 men wounded; 15,000 killed. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War’s tragic cost, in all its forms. These places reveal the trials of a community and nation at war.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Gettysburg College
  A Civil War field hospital and command post.
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  During the Civil War, the college provided shelter for the wounded and dying as a field hospital and as a command post. President Eisenhower had his post-presidential office on the campus.
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• Gettysburg National Military Park
  Civil War Battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  The Battle of Gettysburg was a critical turning point in the American Civil War, a conflict that determined the fate of the United States. Gettysburg National Military Park incorporates nearly 6,000 acres, with 26 miles of park roads and over 1,400 monuments, markers, and memorials.
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• Gettysburg Railroad Station
  Civil War railroad station
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  Lincoln and eleven other United States Presidents used this historic railroad station when visiting Gettysburg.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Goose Creek Stone Bridge
  Oldest stone turnpike bridge in Virginia
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The Goose Creek Stone Bridge is believed to be the oldest and longest stone turnpike bridge in Virginia. It is 212 feet long and is located near Atoka, Virginia.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Gordonsville Historic District
  19th- and early 20th-century buildings
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The assemblage of 19th- and early 20th-century residential, commercial, and church buildings forming this Piedmont community reflects the vicissitudes of a Virginia railroad town.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Graffiti House
  Exhibits interpret the Civil War era in the town of Brandy Station
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  Generations of wallpaper have been peeled back to reveal handwritten notes, drawings and patriotic missives written by soldiers on both sides of the Civil War.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Greenwich Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
  Gothic Church built in 1858
  Closed to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  Built in 1858, this picturesque country Gothic church is distinguished by its rustic Gothic porches and lych (roofed) gate. It was the only church in the county not damaged by Union forces.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
  Open to the public. Located in Jefferson County, WV
  A visit to this quaint, historic community, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, is like stepping into the past. Stroll the picturesque streets, visit exhibits and museums, or hike our trails and battlefields. There's a wide variety of experiences for visitors of all ages, so come and discover Harpers Ferry.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Hessian Barracks
  A Revolutionary war prison and Civil War hospital
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  A two-story stone structure built during the French and Indian War which has been used as a Revolutionary War prison, staging point for Lewis and Clarke expedition, State Armory in 1812, and a Civil War general hospital.
  Interests: Civil War, Revolutionary War
   
• Hill Mansion
  1850's Italianate style mansion
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  Hill Mansion is a sophisticated example of the Italianate style, one of the several picturesque modes popular in the 1850s.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Leesburg Historic District
  Offering a view of three centuries of history
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Leesburg offers a view of three centuries of history and continues to play an important part in the future as the seat of government for Loudoun County.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Liberia Plantation House
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Prince William County, VA
  The name highlights William Weir’s ambivalence about slavery—he supported general emancipation with resettlement of former slaves in Liberia, Africa.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Lincoln Cemetery
  Burial site of Gettysburg’s African American citizens and Civil War veterans
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  The cemetery was established in 1867 by the Sons of Good Will for the Proper Burial of Gettysburg’s African American citizens and Civil War Veterans. In keeping with the laws and customs of the times, African American veterans were denied the honor of being buried in the National Cemetery.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Loudoun Museum
  Loudoun County's history museum
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The museum interprets Loudoun history through exhibits of permanent and changing collections, to educate the public about Loudoun history through programs, resource materials, and events, and to foster heritage tourism.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Revolutionary War
   
• Lutheran Theological Seminary
  Lutheran seminary
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Adams County, PA
  The oldest continuing Lutheran seminary in America, the campus was part of the battle of Gettysburg when on July 1, 1863, it became a battleground and then the center of the Confederate line.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Madden's Tavern
  Civil War era log structure
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This 1840 simple log structure is a rare relic of pre-Civil War black entrepreneurship in rural Virginia.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Madison County Courthouse Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Madison County, VA
  Madison County has been a crossroads of history for over 11,000 years. Paleo-Indians, the royal governor Alexander Spottswood as well as Civil War Generals Stonewall Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart along with their men have all been visitors to Madison County.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Manassas National Battlefield Park
  The site of two major Civil War battles
  Open to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  This Civil War battlefield was the site of two battles: July 21, 1861 and August 28-30, 1862.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Mayhurst
  1859 italian villa-style home
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The house was commissioned by Col. John Willis, a great-nephew of James Madison and was begun in 1859. It has been described as a delicious Victorian fantasy.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Menallen Friends Quaker Meeting and Burial Ground
  Part of the underground railroad
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Adams County, PA
  Adams County members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) established the Menallen Meeting in 1780. Some of them actively opposed slavery, allied with free blacks, and assisted freedom seekers escaping to the north or west.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Middleburg Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The heart of Virginia's hunt country. With its tree-lined streets, brick sidewalks, and harmonious scale, the town has a diverse collection of late-18th- to early-20th-century architectural styles highlighted by early stone and brick structures.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Presidential, Revolutionary War
   
• Monocacy Battlefield
  A National Park and battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Known as the "Battle That Saved Washington", it marked the last campaign of the Confederacy to carry the war into the north.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church (Aldie)
  An historic church and graveyard along the Old Carolina Road
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Mt. Zion Church was built to serve a congregation of approximately 400, including African-American freedmen and slaves. During the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and barracks and its graveyard as a cemetery for war casualties.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Orange Commercial Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The Town is rich with history including the courthouse and St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Robert E. Lee's place of worship during the winter of 1863-64.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Sachs Covered Bridge
  Covered bridge
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  Located only a few minutes off of the Gettysburg National Military Park, Sachs Covered Bridge is often missed by visitors, but worth the trip. A field hospital was located nearby and a section of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia passed through it during their retreat from Gettysburg.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Sheads House
  Closed to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  Built in 1862, this structure was known as Oak Ridge Seminary, one of three private girls schools in Gettysburg at the time of the Civil War.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Soldiers National Cemetery
  The site of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  It was here that President Abraham Lincoln spoke of "these honored dead..." and reunited the war-torn nation with his most famous speech, the "Gettysburg Address".
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• South Mountain
  Historic ridge and Civil War battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Washington County, MD
  On September 14, 1862, the three most southern wind gaps of South Mountain (Crampton's, Fox's, and Turner's gaps) were the sites of a successful delaying action fought by Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee during their first invasion on the North. The success in holding back Union General George B. McClellan's army allowed Lee time to regroup his forces at Sharpsburg, where the Battle of Antietam occurred a few days later.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• St. Paul's Espiscopal Church
  Church used as a hospital during the Civil War
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Prince William County, VA
  The 1801 church was built as a district courthouse and then converted to an Episcopal church in 1822. It was used as a  hospital during the Civil War.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• St. Thomas Church
  Served as a Confederate hospital
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Orange County, VA
  The church served as a Confederate hospital in the Civil War. It is noted for its stained glass windows, including one by Tiffany.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• The Lawn
  An 1855 country home
  Closed to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  Named for its immaculately maintained greensward, the English-born Savannah cotton merchant Charles Green established The Lawn in 1855 as a country home following his marriage to Greenwich native Lucy Ireland Hunton.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Thoroughfare Gap Battlefield
  Civil War battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  On August 28, 1862 the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap took place in and around Beverley Mill, then Chapman's mill.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Union Cemetery (Leesburg)
  Contains an 1908 Union Chapel and several notable monuments
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The Union Cemetery predates the three other “Union” cemeteries in Loudoun County established at Hillsboro, Waterford and Lovettsville.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Warrenton Historic District
  An historic and vibrant Main Street community
  Open to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  The rich and colorful history of the county where Chief Justice John Marshall grew up and Colonel John Singleton Mosby rode to fame is preserved in markers and monuments and in twelve stops on the Virginia Civil War Trails.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Washington Historic District (Little Washington)
  Open to the public. Located in Rappahannock County, VA
  This Historic District is nicknamed, Little Washington, as it was laid out by George Washington in 1749.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Presidential
   
• Waterford Historic District
  A 19th century rural village
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The Waterford Historic District is a remarkably intact example of an early-19th-century rural village surrounded by historic farmland. Its significance rests on the almost pristine appearance of the village and landscape. Nestled in the countryside of Loudoun County's northern tip, Waterford developed as a 19th-century Quaker milling community.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Whites Ferry
  An historic ferry on the Potomac River
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  A unique cable ferry crossing the Potomac every 20 minutes connecting Loudoun County, VA with Montgomery County, MD.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Willow Grove
  18th century home of Joseph Clark
  Closed to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  Built in the late 18th century for Joseph Clark, this home is an example of the influence of Thomas Jefferson's Classical Revival.
  Interests: Civil War, Revolutionary War