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Links to Virginia Main Street History, Tourism and
Preservation Websites
Links to Websites of Places Featured in this Itinerary
Other Relevant Websites
Selected Bibliography for Virginia Main Street Communities
Children's Literature
Links to Virginia
Main Street History, Tourism and Preservation Websites
Virginia
Main Street Program
Since 1985, Virginia Main Street has been helping localities revitalize
the economic vitality of downtown commercial districts.
Virginia Main Street Individual Community Organizations:
Altavista On Track, Altavista
Bedford Main Street, Inc., Bedford
Berryville Main Street Facebook Page, Berryville
Downtown Blackstone, Inc., Blackstone
Culpeper Renaissance, Inc., Culpeper
River District Association (formerly Downtown Danville Association), Danville
Downtown Franklin Association, Franklin
Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, Harrisonburg
Downtown Lexington, Lexington
Luray Downtown Initiative, Inc., Luray
Downtown Lynchburg, Lynchburg
Historic Manassas, Inc., Manassas
Marion Downtown Revitalization Association, Marion
Martinsville Uptown Revitalization Association, Martinsville
Community Partnership for the Revitalization of Rocky Mount, Rocky Mount
Destination Downtown South Boston, South Boston
Staunton Downtown Development Association, Staunton
Waynesboro Downtown Development, Inc., Waynesboro
Old Town Development Board, Winchester
Virginia
Department of Housing and Community Development
This state agency each year invests over $100 million into housing and
community development projects throughout Virginia.
Virginia
Department of Historic Resources
Learn more about the State office responsible for surveying and documenting
historic sites in Virginia, as well as the successful Virginia
Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program.
National
Main Street Center
Based in historic preservation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation's
Main Street approach was developed in 1980 to save historic commercial
architecture and the fabric of American communities' built environment,
but has become a powerful economic development tool as well.
Virginia
Tourism Board
Tourist information on lodging, dining, events and attractions throughout
the State of Virginia. The Attractions section includes information many
of the historic towns and places highlighted in this itinerary.
University
of Virginia Press
Visit the website of the publisher of the The Virginia Landmarks Register
(upon which place descriptions in this itinerary were based) and many
other preservation and architecture books.
Federal Historic
Preservation Tax Incentive Program
Find out more about this important economic tool that has been part of
the successful revitalization of many Virginia Main Street communities.
Virginia Museum of History and Culture
The VHS aims to collect, preserve, and interpret the commonwealth's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations. The VHS is open to the public, visit the website for hours and more information.
Links to Websites
of Places Featured in this Itinerary
Abingdon:
Altavista:
Bedford:
Blackstone:
Culpeper:
Danville:
Franklin:
Harrisonburg:
Lexington:
Luray:
Lynchburg:
Manassas:
Marion:
Martinsville:
Orange:
Radford:
Rocky Mount:
South Boston:
Staunton:
Warrenton:
Waynesboro:
Winchester:
Other Relevant Websites
Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itineraries Other travel itineraries in the National Park Service's ongoing series include many historic destinations that you can visit online or in person. Each itinerary spotlights a different geographic region, community, or theme. A number of itineraries feature registered historic places in Virginia. An example is the American Presidents Travel Itinerary. Another is the James River Plantations Travel Itinerary highlighting plantations that still exist along the James River and its tributaries.
Heritage Documentation Programs in the American Memory: Built in America
Heritage Documentation Programs, National Park Service, administers HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey), the Federal Government’s oldest operating preservation program, and companion programs, HAER (Historic American Engineering Record), HALS (Historic American Landscapes Survey), and CRGIS (Cultural Resources Geographic Information Systems). Drawings, maps, photographs, and historical reports produced through the programs and archived at the Library of Congress constitute the nation’s largest collection of historical architectural, engineering, and landscape documentation.
Historic Hotels of America
A feature of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Heritage Traveler program that provides information on historic hotels and package tours in the vicinity of sites included in this itinerary.
National Historic Landmarks
National Historic Landmarks are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior, because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. They are listed in National Register of Historic Places.
National Park Service
The main National Park Service website is the gateway to national parks, information on preserving America’s history and culture in parks and communities, and a vast amount of other useful information on National Park Service programs, history and culture, nature and science, education, and other topics. Locate the National Parks in Virginia some of which are near Virginia Main Street Communities, especially Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, and Manassas National Battlefield Park. Visit the other National Parks in Virginia: Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Arlington House-The Robert E. Lee Memorial National Memorial, Assateague Island National Seashore, Booker T. Washington National Monument, Cape Henry Memorial, Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park, Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, Claude Moore Colonial Farm, Colonial National Historical Park, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Great Falls Park, Green Springs National Historic Landmark District, Historic Jamestowne, Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac National Memorial, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, Petersburg National Battlefield, Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, Prince William Forest Park, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, and Yorktown Battlefield.
National Park Service Office
of Tourism
National Parks have been interwoven with tourism from their earliest days.
This website highlights the ways in which the National Park Service promotes
and supports sustainable, responsible, informed, and managed visitor use
through cooperation and coordination with the tourism industry.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s official inventory of historic places worthy of preservation. Districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture are included in the National Register, which is expanded and maintained by the National Park Service. The National Register website is the gateway to information on authentic registered historic places, the benefits of recognition, and how to become involved in identifying, nominating to the National Register, and protecting these irreplaceable reminders of our heritage.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Trust for Historic Preservation is a U.S. Congress-chartered nonprofit organization that preserves historic places, publishes information about preservation, and operates preservation initiatives. Learn about the programs and membership in the oldest national nonprofit preservation organization.
Teaching with Historic Places
Teaching with Historic Places is a program of the National Park Service that offers a series of online classroom-ready lesson plans on registered historic places and other resources to help teachers and students use historic places in the classroom.
National Scenic Byways Program
This website, maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, includes information on state and nationally designated byway routes throughout America based on their archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic qualities.
Selected Bibliography
for Virginia Main Street Communities
Ayers, Edward L. and John C. Willis, eds. The Edge of the South: Life
in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1991.
Cartmell, Thomas K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants:
A History of Frederick County, Virginia, From Its Formation in 1738 to
1908, facsimile reprint of 1909 edition. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage
Books, Inc.,1989.
Chambers, S. Allen. Lynchburg: An Architectural History. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1981.
Ebert, Rebecca A. and Teresa Lazazzera. Frederick County, Virginia:
From the Frontier to the Future. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company,
1988.
Fountain, Clara Garrett. Danville, Virginia (Postcards History
Series). Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Hawke, George R. A History of Waynesboro, Virginia, to 1900. Waynesboro,
VA: Waynesboro Historical Commission, 1997.
Hofstra, Warren R. A Seperate Place: The Formation of Clarke County,
VA. White Post, VA, 1986; Madison, Wisconsin: Madison House, 1999.
Johnston, Wilbur S. Weaving a Common Thread: A History of the Woolen
Industry in the Top of the Shenandoah Valley. Winchester, VA: Winchester-Frederick
County Historical Society, 1990.
Koons, Kenneth E., and Warren R. Hofstra. After the Backcountry: Rural
Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Loth, Calder, ed. The Virginia Landmarks Register. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Miller, Ann L. Antebellum Orange: The Pre-Civil War Homes, Public
Buildings, and Historic Sites of Orange County, Virginia. Orange,
VA: Moss Publications, 1988.
Noyalas, Jonathan. Plagued By War: Winchester, Virginia During the
Civil War. Leesburg, VA, Gauley Mount Press, 2003.
Olson, Ted and William Lynwood Montell (preface). Blue Ridge Folklife
(Folklife in the South Series). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi,
1998.
Peters, John O. and Margaret T. Virginia's Historic Courthouses.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Robertson, James I. Civil War Sites in Virginia: A Tour Guide.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.
Robertson, James I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the
Legend. New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1997.
Salmon, John S., compiler. A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers
(revised and expanded edition). Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1994.
Sayers, Elizabeth Lemon. Smyth County, Virginia: Volume One, Pathfinders
and Patriots, Prehistory to 1832. Marion, VA: Smyth County Historical
and Museum Society, 1983.
Simons, Catherine T. Manassas, Virginia 1873-1973. Manassas, VA;
Manassas City Museum, 1986.
Scheel, Eugene M. Guide to Fauquier County: Survey of the Architecture
and History of a Virginia County. Warrenton, VA: Warrenton Printing
& Publishing, 1976.
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography.
Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publications, 1998.
Warmuth, Donna Akers. Images of America: Abingdon Virginia. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
Weaver, Richard. Around Lexington, Virginia. Charleston, South
Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Wells, John E., and Robert E. Dalton. The Virginia Architects, 1835-1955:
A Bibliographic Dictionary. Richmond, VA: New South Architectural
Press, 1997.
West, Amanda B. Main Street Festivals: Traditional and Unique Events
on America's Main Streets. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Wilson, Richard Guy, ed. Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont.
New York: Oxford University Press. 2002
Worsham, Gibson. Montgomery County Historic Sites Survey. Montgomery
County, VA: Gibson Worsham, Architect, 1986.
Zenzen, Joan M., and Edwin Bearss. Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year
Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park. State
College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.
Children's
Literature
Bruun, Erik A., and Rick Peterson. State Shapes: Virginia. New
York: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. 2000.
Cocke, William. A Historical Album of Virginia. Brookfield, CT:
Millbrook Press, 1995.
Fritz, Jean. The Great Little Madison. New York: Putnam, 1998.
Hakim, Joy. Making Thirteen Colonies. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999
McGovern, Ann, et al. If You Lived in Colonial Times. New York:
Scholastic Trade, 1992.
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