Former Presbyterian Manse
Open Saturday and Sunday Construction on this Federal-style four-square home began in 1858 and was completed in 1860. The house stands close to where the Old Union Church once stood. The lost was conveyed by James Kuykendall and his wife, An…
Water Edge Farm Vineyard
Water Edge Farm Vineyard, owned by Steve and Lucy Fisher West, is the vineyard for their winery, West-Whitehill Winery. It is located on the historic Fisher family farm, Water Edge Farm, located on River Road in Fisher. This farm has been in…
Mathias High School
Old Mathias High School Hall of Honor Open Saturday Only There is a tremendous collection of local and county history tucked away in the old Mathias school. The earliest schools were in their communities. With the school year lasting about 6…
Wilson House
WILSON HOUSE CIRCA 1914 Open Saturday Only Known as part of the Old Church lot, Robert A. Wilson purchased the property in 1905 from the Town of Moorefield. In 1914 Robert and his wife, Gelia M. Belt Wilson built this lovely white wood-fra…
Ben Mathias Barn- 2019 Tile House
It is a working barn and an eye-catcher for barn-lovers. If you drive by, it is not unusual to see a photographer or painter capturing its beauty. It’s a classic example of what Eric Slone referred to when he wrote of a time when barns wer…
Miss Lizzie’s House
Open Saturday Only The house fondly referred to as Miss Lizzie’s house, which sits in downtown Petersburg, was built in 1854 and originally included 47 acres of land with it. Dr. Thomas Jefferson Grove and his wife built the home and his o…
Hickory Hill
Hickory Hill was built in 1809 by Solomon Cunningham and his wife Catherine Seymour. The home has a phenomenal view over looking river bottom farm land and is nestled in a grove of ancient oak trees with an Indian Mound situated in the front…
Funkhouser Farm
Photo by Albert Mach The log cabin was built by Henry Funkhouser who was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Henry was a descendant of emigrants that migrated to America from Switzerland in the 1700’s. Henry acquired two tracts of 67 and …
Valley Baptist Church
Formerly known as the Lost City Baptist Church. In 1894 Thomas Clover and Son sold a lot for $100 to the Lost City Baptist Church and its trustees. The building was completed in 1894 and like the houses in the area, it was surrounded by a wh…
H.W. Frye Homeplace
The Wardensville Garden Market is a non-profit farm launched with a private foundation grant in 2016 and is dedicated to encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of local youth through small-scale sustainable farming. They currently employ alm…
Leatherman Barn
Looking like a towered and turreted castle, the Leatherman Barn of Buena Vista Farms was built between 1903 and 1907 by George T. Leatherman. The barn cost was $4,229.26, a princely sum at the time but by today’s standards a trifling amoun…
Friddle House
Open Saturday Only Hardy County has many homes with Victorian detailing but only a few truly Victorian designed homes. One of the most notable is the Friddle House on South Main Street in Moorefield. The three story house is a wonderful exam…
The Dodd House
Sallie Heiskell Chambers and her husband, John W. Chambers, were living with her father, James R. Heiskell at Sunset View, north of Moorefield at the time of his death in 1883. Mr. Heiskell willed Sunset View to his son and to his daughter…
The P.T. Shearer House and Garden
Photo by Albert Mach The P.T. Shearer House is a classic Greek Revival home built during the early 1840s making it one of the first brick homes in historic Moorefield. The house was constructed in three sections; the first and front sectio…
The Farmhouse and General Store at Peru
The Peru (pronounced Pea-Rew) store has been a presence along the South Fork Valley for over 100 years. This valley has a long history of stores, mills, post offices, schools and churches every few miles. The farmhouse and the store construc…
Mullin Hotel
Mullin Hotel Open Saturday and Sunday Built 166 years ago, in 1847, when West Virginia was the western part of Virginia, the hotel was originally known as the Moorefield Hotel Company and the stockholders included Charles Carter Lee, eldest …
Old Fields Church / Fort Pleasant Meeting House
Also known as the Fort Pleasant Meeting House, the Old Fields Church holds special significance in the history of the South Branch Valley. It is the oldest church in West Virginia; and because it served, too, as a school house, it is believe…
Presbyterian Church
Photo: Dan Reichard The Presbyterian Church congregation in Moorefield was organized with 31 members on the rolls in 1838 but traces its roots to itinerant preachers in the 1780s. In 1846, several prominent families deeded Lot 18 in Moorefie…
Lost River Artisans Cooperative and Lost River Museum
Lost River Artisans’ Cooperative Lost River Artisans Cooperative and the farm family museum are new to the big red building at 8937 State Route 259 in Lost City. However, the property has held many roles in local history over the past 60 y…
McCoy’s Grand Theatre
Photo: Dan Reichard For more than half a century, McCoy’s Grand Theatre operated continuously as a show place for movies and live performances. Restored and modernized, the structure serves as a home to community theater product…
Inn at Lost River and Lost River General Store
The Inn at Lost River sits on property originally owned by William (Billy) Harper, an early landowner in the Lost River Valley. Harper operated a Gristmill and General Store which were the commercial and social centers of activity for…
Mount Moriah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Photo: Connie Twedt The Lutheran congregation in Baughman Settlement was first recognized by the German Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran Society in 1833, and was first known as the Cedar Hill Lutheran Church. Their church stood to th…
Higgins House
Photo: Al Mach One of the oldest extant structures in Moorefield, the Higgins House was built 1786-88 by Robert Higgins, a captain in the Revolutionary War. In 1777, the Virginia General Assembly authorized creation of a town on the lands of…
Duffey United Methodist Church
With the growth of Methodism and movement of the population center from Old Fields, where the first church was constructed at Fort Pleasant, the first Methodist Church was built in Moorefield in 1850 on Elm Street. The church h…
Tannery House (circa 1909)
Photo: Al Mach This house is one of the original company houses built by the Union Tannery in Petersburg. It was part of a row of 10 houses, all painted yellow. In 2007, the house was moved to its present location and has been lovingl…
Fort Mulligan
Photo: Al Mach The fort is open daily from dawn to dusk and offers a self-guided tour. Constructed in 1863 by Union troops under the command of Colonel James A. Mulligan. The site is known locally as Fort Hill. The Fort was evacuated …
South Side Depot
Photo: Al Mach South Side Depot serves as an Information Center for Heritage Weekend and has tiles, tickets and publications available. This building was the home to the W.C. Halterman’s General Merchandise Store from 1911-1940. It …
Old Grant County Court House
Photo: Al Mach The Court House dates to circa 1909 and contains a very interesting display of military articles, items and documents. It also has an extensive photo gallery of the many local young citizens who have served their countr…
Davis House
Photo: Al Mach One of the oldest houses in Petersburg, dating back before 1840. It was first used as a parsonage by the Methodist . It was later owned by the Davis family until 1974. The Grant County Historical Society recently purcha…
Maple Grove School
Photo: Bob Alcock The restoration of this one room school is so authentic that former student Austin Ludwig said: “The only things missing are the broken water cooler and the ink wells we used to dip the girls’ hair in.”…
Hahn Brothers Sawmill
Photo: Hahn Family Brothers John and Wilbur Hahn started working together in 1939. Mostly they cut, milled and hauled timber. They transported axes, cross cut saws and a portable mill to where the trees stood, cut for weeks and then m…
St. Peter Lutheran Church
The first Lutheran congregation in Wardensville was formed by Pastor John Hamilton on April 18, 1840. The early years of the church were difficult. Most Hardy County residents were loyal to the Southern cause during the Civil War. When Union…
Cullers Run School
Cullers Run School is one of the most complete restorations of a one-room school in the nation. It is chock full of authentic memorabilia: the original bell, pot-bellied stove, teacher’s desk, student benches, lunch buckets, textbooks, pap…
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Photo: Al Mach Used as a place of worship and community meeting place for many years, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, like many country churches, lost its congregation to larger consolidated churches in the 1950s, closed its…
Lee Cabin
Photo: Dan Reichard For years, this rustic cabin was believed to have been built by Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, the Revolutionary War hero and father of Confederate icon Robert E. Lee. But a study by Ellen Anderson for the WV D…
John Mathias Homestead
Photo: Dan Reichard The Mathias Homestead has survived more than two centuries of wear and tear and some misfortune to remain standing as a monument to the homesteading families of the Lost River Valley and as a special tribute to the…