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Winchester, Virginia African American Heritage Self-Guided Driving Tour
Handley Regional Library's Local Black History Task Force researched and developed a thorough driving tour of the African American sites in Historic Winchester. The tour can be accessed online and, if desired, a paper copy can be obtained from Winchester's Visitor Center located at 1400 South Pleasant Valley Road, Winchester, VA 2260.
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Clarke/Warren Counties Tour
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- Lewisville Community
- Clifton Farm Slave Quarters
- Bristow Community
- Webbtown Community
- Clermont Farm
- Blackburn Town
- Clarke County Courthouse
- Josephine City
- Josephine School Community Museum
- Annefield Farm
- Old Chapel
- Little Chapel (Claytonville)
- Browntown
- Millwood
- Enslaved Burials at Blandy Farm
- White Post
- Sugar Hill
- Stone Bridge
- Smoketown
- Happy Creek Loop
- Good Hope Cemetery
- Ressie Jeffries Elementary
- Front Royal Colored School
- Warren County High School
- Prospect Hill Cemetery
- Freetown/Southtown
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church
- Williams Chapel
- Warren Heritage Society
- Henrico Baltimore Family Cemetery
- Frederick County >
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Shenandoah/Page Counties Tour
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- Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Naked Creek Colored School
- Catherine Furnace
- Stony Man
- Pass Run
- Hamburg African American Regular School
- Saint John’s Baptist Church
- Rockingham County Bronze Turkey Statue
- French’s Fence line Burials
- Steptoe Barber Shop
- Jessie Rupert Schoolhouse
- Zion Baptist Church and School
- Durrett’s Cleaners
- Asbury Memorial Methodist Church
- Corhaven Graveyard
- Calvary Methodist Church and School
- First Baptist Church
- Mount Jackson Historic Colored Cemetery
- Cemetery at Lantz Mill
- Columbia Furnace
- Liberty Furnace
- Wolf Gap
- Riverview Cemetery
- Creekside Elementary School
- Mt. Zion Methodist Church
- Woodstock “Colored School” (1867-1937)
- Spengler Home
- Esbie Baptist Church
- Sunset Hill School
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Town of Luray
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- Ulysses Simpson Grant Fry Restaurant
- Tutt's Tavern and Home
- Bethel Baptist Church
- Bethany Veney Historical Marker
- West Luray School
- Butler's Store and Home
- Jackson Store and Home
- St. John Baptist Church
- Jackie's Beauty Salon
- Historic Andrew Jackson School Museum
- Thomas Dougans Taxi Cab Co.
- Tutt's Auto
- Tutt's Upholstery and Slaughterhouse
- Wright's Restaurant
- Midway Inn
- King's Restaurant
- Earl Harris Barber Shop
- Little Angels Daycare
- Emmett Arthur Dougans Bridge
- Hillside Cemetery
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Rockingham County Tour
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- Valley Pike
- Smithland Historic Home
- History of the Zenda
- Long's Chapel and Cemetery
- Wilson and Fortune Cemetery
- Residents of Zenda
- Pickering’s Farmland Enslaved Burials
- Tenth Legion Churches
- Tunker Monument
- Moore Family Burial Ground
- Linville Creek Church of the Brethren Cemetery
- Issac Riddle Farm African American Cemetery
- Bergton Fairgrounds
- Lincoln Homestead and Family Cemetery
- Mannheim Plantation
- Oak Grove Church and Cemetery
- Daniel Harrison House (Fort Harrison)
- Rocktown History
- Spring Creek Negro Cemetery
- North River Baptist Church
- Greenwood Cemetery
- The Roscoe Burgess Sr. Riverwalk
- Mt. Crawford Community Cemetery
- Mt. Moriah United Methodist Church and Cemetery
- Marshall Jones House
- Bogota Farm
- Dungeon's Chapel and Cemetery
- Jonathan Peale House
- Riverbank Plantation
- Blakey Farm
- New Hope Church and Cemetery
- McGaheyville's Rosenwald School
- Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and Cemetery
- Bible Way Church of God in Christ and Cemetery
- St. Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery and Greenwood Family Cemetery
- St. Hebron Baptist Church
- Mt. Paran Church Lot
- Newtown School of East Elkton
- St. Paul United Methodist Church and Cemetery
- Elk Run Cemetery
- Rockingham County Bronze Turkey Statue
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City of Harrisonburg
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- Jail Hill
- William Strother House
- Jeremiah Gibson Properties
- Hite Family Home
- Peters' Family Properties
- History of Newtown
- The Blue Circle 30 Club
- First Baptist Church
- Doc Dickerson's House
- Mrs. Ida Francis Tourist Home
- Blakey's Barbershop and Upholstery
- The Colonnade
- Mary Awkard-Fairfax' Home
- Effinger Street School
- Roberta Webb's Home
- Historic Broad Street Mennonite Church
- Dallard-Newman House
- Bethel AME Church
- Miss Lena's Grocery Store
- First Baptist Church (Present Day)
- Johnson Street Community Center
- Lucy F. Simms' Home
- Lucy F. Simms School
- Ralph Sampson Park
- Mr. Martin’s Store
- Harris Pool
- Newtown Cemetery
- John Wesley United Methodist Church
- Edgar Amos Love Historical Marker
- Exchange Club Park
- Ott Dependency
- 150 Franklin Street Gallery
- Hardesty-Higgins House Visitor Center
- Harry Lee's Shoe Shine Parlor
- Rockingham County Courthouse
- Charlotte Harris Historical Marker
- Elon Rhodes Barbershop
- World War I Memorial
- Furious Flower Poetry Center
- Harriet Tubman Cultural Center
- Harrisonburg-Rockingham County NAACP
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Staunton Tour
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- Fair View Cemetery
- Temple House of Israel Cemetery
- Evans Rooming House
- Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Snack Shop
- Elks Hall
- 1894 Staunton Tribune
- Ebenezer Baptist Church
- People’s Pharmacy
- Augusta Street United Methodist Church
- Staunton Restaurant, Corporation
- Augusta County Court House
- James M Morris, Attorney-at-Law
- Rose and Paige Smith
- Augusta County Training School (1928-1966)
- Queen Miller Orphanage (1910-1955)
- Valley Mission
- Thornrose Cemetery
- Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
- Stonewall Jackson Primary School (1887-1973)
- Bennie’s Shoe Store
- Dr. C.J. Waller
- Dr. Oscar W. Marshall
- S.M. Wilkes & Co.
- Masonic Temple
- The Peoples Dime Savings Bank and Trust Association, Inc.
- Crawford’s Barber Shop
- J.H. Gibson
- 9 East Frederick St
- Free School for Colored Children No. 2
- McKinley Bryant and Jefferson Bryant
- James Smith Grocery
- Johnson’s Restaurant
- Sunnyside Theatre
- Spring Hill Negro Cemetery
- Cochran Slave Cemetery
- Dutch Hollow Slave Cemetery
- Beverley Manor Negro Cemetery
- Cedar Green Negro Cemetery
- Hunter Cemetery at Shady Oak Station
- Greenville Cemetery (Mount Ead Cemetery)
- Booker T. Washington High School (1936-1966)
- Cook’s Grocery
- Vickers Way
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Clarke/Warren Counties Tour
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- Friendly City Food Co-op Exhibit
- Local Black Businesses
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