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The Virginia Museum of Natural History was founded in 1984 as The Boaz Foundation, named after Dr. Noel T. Boaz, Founding Director, along with co-founder Dr. Dorothy Dechant Boaz. The museum was founded as a private institution, but on June 2, 1985, the museum opened to the public with the new and current name.
December 19, 1960 (Hampton: Hampton (independent city) Fort Monroe was completed in 1834, and is named in honor of U.S. President James Monroe. Completely surrounded by a moat, the six-sided stone fort was an active Army post until 2011.
Map of Virginia. Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places: . As of September 18, 2017, there are 3,027 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 95 Virginia counties and 37 of the 38 independent cities, including 120 National Historic Landmarks and National Historic Landmark Districts, four ...
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Butler Cave- Breathing Cave: 1973: Bath: Private Two major cave systems that contain a 40-foot (12 m) waterfall, a natural bridge, unusually fine crystalline formations, and an underground lake.
National Historic Landmarks in Virginia The main article for this category is List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
website, history, natural history, Native Americans, pioneer life in 15 reconstructed buildings Craig County Historical Society Museum: New Castle: Craig: Shenandoah Valley: Local history: Located in the Old Brick Hotel [13] Crewe Railroad Museum: Crewe: Nottoway: Northern: Railway [14] Custom House: Yorktown: York: Tidewater/Hampton Roads: History
Historians soon began recommending preservation of sites relating to human history. [5] Congress created Colonial National Monument in 1930 to protect the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown battlefield in Virginia as one of the first new historical areas, and it was renamed a national historical park in 1936. [5]
The following is a partial list of the sites designated as Virginia Historic Landmarks, on the Virginia Landmarks Register: Ball-Sellers House [3] Fairfield Plantation; Monterey Hotel; Michie Tavern; Natural Bridge; Pamplin Historical Park and National Museum of the Civil War Soldier; Ramsay; Seay's Chapel Methodist Church; Sherwood Forest ...