Mount
Vernon
• home of George and Martha Washington
George
Washington's Grist
Mill
• located between Mount Vernon and Woodlawn
Plantation
Woodlawn
Plantation
• home of Nelly Custis (Martha Washington's
granddaughter) and Lawrence Lewis
(George Washington's nephew)
Pohick
Church
• George Washington, among other famous northern
Virginians, attended services here.
Gunston
Hall
• home of George Mason, author of the Virginia
Bill of Rights
Fairfax
Courthouse
• The first session of court was held in this
building in 1800.
• George Washington, George Mason, and other
prominent northern Virginians
served as justices here.
Legato
School
• Relocated to its site in front of the Massey
Building, on Route 123 in Fairfax City
to preserve an example of a one room
schoolhouse.
Great
Falls Park
• View the spectacular falls and learn about
George Washington's attempt to
construct the Potomack Canal to enable boats to
bypass the falls in the river
Luray
Caverns
Claude
Moore Colonial Farm
• Volunteers work a small farm to show how
"poor" farmers of the18th century would have
lived.
Dranesville
Tavern
• located on the south side of Route 7 at
Dranesville
Colvin
Run Mill
•
shows the working of a gristmill
Sully
Plantation
•
home of Richard Bland Lee, northern Virginia's first
congressman
If you
are able to travel a little farther, the following are
some of Virginia's interesting places to
visit.
Jamestown
•
See a re-creation of the Algonquin Indian village and the
Jamestown settlement which
was the first permanent English settlement
(includes the fort and replicas of the 3
ships).
Williamsburg
• Visit many interesting sites in a restoration
of Virginia's colonial capital.
Yorktown
• This is the site of the British surrender to
American and French armies that marked the
end of the Revolutionary War.
Monticello
• the remarkable home of Thomas
Jefferson
Montpelier
• home of James Madison
Shirley
Plantation
•
the oldest surviving plantation in Virginia
Berkeley
Plantation
•
birthplace of two presidents, Benjamin Harrison and
William Henry Harrison
Sherwood
Forest Plantation
•
home of John Tyler
Skyline
Caverns
Natural
Bridge
Pamunkey
Indian Reservation
•
"a living memory of Powhatan's People"
Mattaponi
Indian Reservation
• also off Route 30E near the Pamunkey
Reservation
You
may obtain additional information about Virginia's
historic and natural sites from the Virginia
Tourism Corporation.
