King and Queen County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia, located in the state's Middle Peninsula on the eastern edge of the Richmond, VA, metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,608. Its county seat is King and Queen Court House.
Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
King George is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of King George County, Virginia, United States. It is sometimes referred to as King George Courthouse, because it is the location of the King George County Courthouse. The population as of the 2020 census was 4,970. The Journal Press was a local weekly newspaper published in King George and serving local areas until its final issue was published on Jan 11th, 2017.
Miller's Tavern, Virginia is a small community located on the border of Essex County and King and Queen County, Virginia, in the United States.
Shacklefords is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, United States. It derives its name from the Shackleford family, of whom the immigrant ancestor to the Virginia colony was Roger Shackelford, who was born in Old Alresford in the English county of Hampshire in 1629.
The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown in Newtown, Connecticut. There is a local historic district and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
St. Stephens Church is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, United States.
Cumnor is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, United States.
Shanghai is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, United States.
Walkerton is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, United States.
The Newtown–Stephensburg Historic District is located in the central section of Stephens City, Virginia along U.S. Route 11 from the far northern to the far southern boundaries of the town and from just east of Green Hill Cemetery to just west of the interchange of State Route 277 and Interstate 81.
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District is the first county-designated historic district in Saint Mary's County, the "Mother County" of Maryland and is located in Compton, Maryland, near the county seat of Leonardtown. The district marks a location and site important in the 17th-century ecclesiastical history of Maryland, as an example of a self-contained Jesuit community made self-supporting by the surrounding 700-acre (2.8 km2) farm. The two principal historic structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Archaeological remains associated with the site date back to the early colonial period, mid-17th century.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in King and Queen County, Virginia.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in King George County, Virginia.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in King William County, Virginia.
Newtown is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Newtown is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east of Matewan. Newtown has a post office with ZIP code 25686.
Hillsborough is a historic plantation house located near Walkerton, King and Queen County, Virginia. It was built in the mid-18th century, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick and frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof and a frame two-story wing. Also on the property is the contributing two-story brick storehouse.
Providence Plantation and Farm, also known as Fogg House and Farm, is a historic plantation house located near Newtown in King and Queen County, Virginia. The two story, 3-bay Federal style brick main house was built about 1826, and expanded circa 1840. Also on the privately-held property, demonstrating the changes over time as the plantation which once encompassed about 1299 acres shrunk to the listed 6.47 acres, are the contributing two-story Reconstruction-era granary and carriage house, and Great Depression-era hen laying house, two-story sweet potato shed, and mechanic's shop.
Newtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Newtown, King and Queen County, Virginia, United States. About 45 miles northeast of Richmond on the Middle Peninsula, Newtown took the name of the plantation of Captain John Richards, who had a store and ordinary (tavern/inn) on the post road between Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Earlier, it had been the junction of native American Chiskiack trails along the ridge above the York River and trails northeast and northwest. Although many revolutionary-era soldiers from Newtown left the area, the town became known for its private schools, as well as several resident physicians and merchants. Several large plantations surrounded the crossroads, but the county seat was located at King and Queen Courthouse. Newtown became strategically important during the American Civil War, although not a battleground, and in June 1863 Confederate General George Pickett gathered his division in Newtown before departing for the Battle of Gettysburg.
King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District is a national historic district located at King and Queen Court House, near Shacklefords, King and Queen County, Virginia. It encompasses eight contributing buildings, seven contributing structures, and two contributing objects in the county seat of King and Queen County. The district includes a small courthouse compound with a courthouse, clerk's office, and county jail, a granite monument and brick wall, a hotel / tavern building, a school, a specialty store building, and a residence on the site of another hotel and tavern.
