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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
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Dillwyn is home to the only rail service in the county, the Buckingham Branch Railroad, which runs north to New Canton. Of the 176 households 30.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.6% were married couples living together, 22.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.7% were non-families. 32.4% of ...
Buckingham County, lying south of the James River and in the Piedmont at the geographic center of the state, was established on May 1, 1761, from the southeastern portion of Albemarle County. [3] The origin of the county name probably comes from the Duke of Buckingham ( Buckinghamshire, England ).
The house prior to its restoration. Little is known about the early history of Locust Grove. It was evidently constructed sometime before 1794, as Francisco took up residence in the house in that year, living there until the mid-1820s (one source [4] states that he took possession in 1785, while another [6] suggests, on the basis of style, a date between 1790 and 1810).
Plantation founded by Joseph Gee, a native of Halifax County, North Carolina, circa 1816 in an Alabama River bend that retains his last name to the present. It passed to his nephews upon his death. They transferred it to their relative, Mark Harwell Pettway, also a native of Halifax County North Carolina, in 1845 in order to settle a $29,000 debt.
The Buckingham Training School is a historic school property at 245 Camden Street in Dillwyn, Virginia. Now Ellis Acres Memorial Park , the property's centerpiece is a community center that was built in 1932 as the automotive shop building of the local Rosenwald School . [ 2 ]
Buckingham is a census-designated place (CDP; listed as Buckingham Courthouse) in and the county seat of Buckingham County, Virginia, United States. [3] The population as of the 2010 Census was 133. [4] The town of Buckingham was established in 1818, and originally named Maysville, before the name was changed to that of the county.