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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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