Virginia Main Street Communities was produced by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development's Virginia Main Street Program, Virginia Department of Historic Resources and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO). It was created under the direction of Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, Patrick W. Andrus, Heritage Tourism Program Manager, and Beth L. Savage, Publications Managing Editor. Virginia Main Street Communities is based on information in the files of the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks collections. These materials are kept at 1201 Eye St., NW, Washington, D.C., and are open to the public from 9:00am to 12:00pm, Monday through Thursday.

Sarah Dillard Pope with the Virginia Main Street program conceptualized the itinerary. Courtney Anderson and Amy Yarich, program manager, also of Virginia Main Street, contributed written materials and editorial assistance. With contributions from Bryan Green of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, these two State offices provided written and photographic materials for the itinerary. Many site descriptions were excerpted from The Virginia Landmarks Register (4th edition, 1999), published by the University Press of Virginia, while most historic district descriptions were written by Sarah Dillard Pope. National Register web production team members included Jeff Joeckel, who designed the itinerary, Rustin Quaide and Shannon Bell (all of NCSHPO). Additional property descriptions were written by Rustin Quaide. Essays were written by Sarah Pope (Virginia Main Street); Scott Smith, Executive Director of Bedford Main Street, Inc. (Commercial Architecture in Virginia, Transportation and co-author of Agriculture and Industry); and Jay Harrison, Executive Director of Orange Downtown Alliance, Inc. (co-author of Agriculture and Industry).

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