by Danelle Rose | Feb 6, 2020
TAKE YOUR BRAIN FOR A WALK. Explore streetscapes, historic landmarks, and locally owned businesses while challenging your brain with fun puzzles and clues. Tours to take: African-American Heritage of Fredericksburg Tour provides an opportunity learn and reflect. This...
by Christine Kovacs | Jan 23, 2020
Our standard Private Carriage Ride is approximately 45 minutes long. We will usually cover up to 3 miles of Fredericksburg Commercial District, the Colonial, Queen Victorian and Edwardian residential Historic District. Fredericksburg is known for its unique...
by Christine Kovacs | Jan 23, 2020
**Note: During the Covid 19 pandemic all rides will be considered private, we will only allow members of the same house hold or families to ride in the carriage at one time. You will never ride with strangers. We also have plexi-glass and other measures in place to...
by Christine Kovacs | Jan 23, 2020
**Note: During the Covid 19 pandemic, we will treat all tours and rides as private rides. Only members of the same house hold or family members will be allowed to ride together. No one will ride with strangers. We are also taking all precautions to keep you safe. We...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, located in historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the largest repository in the country for artifacts and documents related to the fifth president of the United States. The museum was first opened in 1927 by Monroe...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
A national historic landmark, built between 1751-1757, Aquia is one of the finest examples of colonial church architecture in Virginia, and one of the oldest churches still actively used in America. The church is noted for its Aquia stone trim, like what was quarried...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
On the corner of Caroline and Lewis streets sits a small red brick building built in 1749. This building was originally the Fielding Lewis Store. Besides being one of the oldest buildings in America and the oldest in Fredericksburg, the Fielding Lewis Store can also...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
The cemetery where some of the earliest settlers to the area (including some Washington family members) are buried is a small, handsome burial ground with notable ironwork and old monuments.
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
The Battle of the Wilderness first pitted General Robert E. Lee against Union General Ulysses S. Grant in May of 1864. The battle turned the tide of the war as Grant continued his march, “On to Richmond.” The shelter exhibits explains the Battle of the...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
In the mid 1800’s Shiloh Baptist was sold to its all black congregation for a sum of $500. Over the years the church grew and had several name changes. Today there are several Shiloh Baptist churches in the Fredericksburg area. During the Civil War, the original...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
Spotsylvania County proudly shares a distinctive heritage that visitors can experience through our significant sites, markers and battlefields. Be sure to see the Spotsylvania Courthouse District, designated a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed in The National...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
The Fredericksburg Area Museum (FAM), in association with Hallowed Ground Tours, presents a series of walking tours of downtown Fredericksburg and its historic neighborhoods. Tour guides will discuss examples of four-centuries of architecture and unravel the...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
Personal in-car or bus step-on service from the area’s Premier Tour Guide service is available for in-depth tours highlighting local history, from the area’s Colonial past through the Civil War era, and beyond. Visitors can walk among the sites, not just...
by Michelle Dolby | Jan 24, 2019
Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont – The richly furnished country house and working studio of American impressionist painter Gari Melchers (1860-1932) can be seen as they appeared in the 1920s. Explore the colorful formal gardens and wooded hiking trails...
by Danelle Rose | Jan 24, 2019
The Museum relates County history from 1722 with its collection of artifacts and exhibits beginning with John Smith’s earliest expiration through the Civil War exhibit, “17 Days in May”, the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. You will enjoy learning the history...
by Jessica Burger | Jan 24, 2019
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bulk of your tour of Ferry Farm will take place outside. Time inside the Washington house will be more limited than normal. Except for access to the restroom, our visitors center, museum gallery, and gift shop are closed. Please...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
Located 13 miles west of Fredericksburg, the area around this visitor center was the scene of the accidental wounding of Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson in the May 1863 battle known as Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory of the Civil War. Audio-visual program,...
by Courtney Cutler | Jan 24, 2019
ca. 1772 This eighteenth-century building was restored to house the Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop, a museum of medicine, pharmacy, and military and political affairs. Dr. Mercer served the citizens of Fredericksburg with medicines and treatments of the time....
by Jessica Burger | Jan 24, 2019
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bulk of your tour at Kenmore will take place outside. Time inside the house will be more limited than normal. Except for access to the restrooms, our visitors center, museum gallery, and gift shop in the Crowninshield Building are...
by rambletype | Jan 24, 2019
By January 1863, the Army of the Potomac was demoralized and defeated. After losing the Battle of Fredericksburg in December and the Mud March, General Ambrose Burnside was replaced by General Joseph Hooker. At that critical time the Union Army had more...
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