– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Ware Parish Church Ware Parish Church is in Gloucester County in the lower part of the Middle Peninsula of Virginia. The county was formed from York County in 1651. There were four parishes of the Anglican Church in the county: Abingdon, Kingston, Petsworth and Ware. These four parishes were formed between 1655...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Richmond County Courthouse For those of you not from Virginia, Richmond County is nowhere near the city of Richmond. The county is 53 miles Northeast of the city on Virginia’s Northern Neck between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. It was formed from Old Rappahannock County in 1692. The first court house...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Danson House Danson House is a Grade I listed building at the centre of Danson Park in the London Borough of Bexley. The Georgian mansion was built in 1766 by Sir John Boyd for his second wife Catherine Chapone. The Early Years The Danson Estates, as the property was originally known, date back to at least 1284....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Morattico Post Office The Morattico Post Office is one of 69 contributing buildings in the Morattico Historic District. The historic district is part of the unincorporated village of Morattico. It is a small watermen’s community situated on a peninsula on the eastern bank of the Rappahannock River in Lancaster...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bacons Castle On both historical and architectural grounds, Bacons Castle is one of the important buildings of the 17th century colonial period. It is the oldest documented brick dwelling in the United States. The building is a rare example of Jacobean architecture in the New World. The property was given the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St Lukes Church St Lukes Church is the oldest church of English foundation in America. The date of foundation has never been verified with any certainty despite much research. The consensus is that the church was founded in 1632. Two things support this date, both of which would be deemed circumstantial in a...
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