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Today, Rice's Hotel / Hughlett's Tavern is operated by an all-volunteer foundation, Rice's Hotel / Hughlett's Tavern Foundation Inc., and has become a major tourist attraction. It is home to four artisan guilds: the Blacksmith Guild, the Quilt Guild, the Woodworkers Guild, and the Spinners & Weavers Guild.
Jackson Blacksmith Shop – Goochland County — Built around 1880 by Henry Jackson and his father, the shop provided essential blacksmithing services to residents of Goochland County and ...
Jackson Blacksmith Shop is a historic blacksmith shop located near Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia. It was built in 1932, and is a one-story, rectangular, pole structure, shed-type building. It measures 16 feet by 24 feet and has a gable roof. The shop remains in operation. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Mabry Mill is a watermill located at milepost 176.2 of Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County, Virginia. Run by the National Park Service, it is a tourist attraction. A short trail around the mill connects historical exhibits about life in rural Virginia. The trail allows visitors to view the gristmill, sawmill, and blacksmith shop.
International Cinematographers Guild (Local 667 Eastern Canada) Motion Picture Studio Production Technicians (Locals 849 Atlantic Canada, 856 Manitoba, 873 Toronto, 411 Toronto, and 891 Vancouver) Halifax Stagehands (Local 680 Halifax)
The farm is near Steele's Tavern and Raphine, close to the northern border of Rockbridge and Augusta counties in the U.S. state of Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech. The museum has free admission and covers 5 acres (2.0 ha) of the initial 532-acre (215.3 ha) farm.
It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia–North Carolina border and 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Washington, D.C., along Interstate 81.
The Blue Ridge Council's original Camp Powhatan was located between Lexington, Virginia, and Roanoke near Natural Bridge and the Jefferson National Forest. [8] In the 1920s–1930s, the council made the property available to Washington and Lee University for an unusual freshman orientation program. Held on a September weekend following the end ...