Buckingham

The Buckingham garden apartment complex was built in stages between 1937 and 1983. It represents a pioneering effort to provide rental housing through the use of "garden city" planning principles, mass production techniques and private capital. The initial developer was ...

National Historic Landmark-Buckingham Friends Meeting House

National Historic Landmark- Buckingham Friends Meeting House

Buckingham Friends Meeting House is nationally significant for its role in providing a model for the development of the American Friends? meeting house. Built in 1768, Buckingham was the first meeting house to be ...

Buckingham Training School

One mile southeast stood Buckingham Training School, the first high school in the county for African American students. In 1919 the Rev. Stephen J. Ellis organized the County-Wide League for School Improvement to persuade the Buckingham County School Board to ...

Buckingham Baptist Church

1771 - 1949

Built in early eighteenth century

by order King of England as an

Episcopal Church. Reorganized as

Baptist Church in 1771 with

Rene Chastain, Pastor

Edgar H Patton, Pastor

Marker is on James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.3 miles north of Trents Mill Road (County ...

Mt. Buckingham School

This school was originally two stories and was built in Georgetown about 1878. At that time it was called the Snow Creek School. Space was limited so the school was dismantled and moved to a larger site in 1910. The ...

Buckingham Courthouse

Designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1821, Burned in 1869, Rebuilt in 1878. The exterior follows Jefferson’s plan with the interior redesigned. Copy of original plan and specifications on display in courthouse. Registered in 1969 as a National and Virginia Historic ...

Buckingham County / Nelson County

(Buckingham County side):

Buckingham County was formed from Albemarle County in 1761. The county seat is Buckingham, originally known as Maysville. In 1822 a courthouse, Virginia's first temple-form porticoed courthouse, was constructed there based on Thomas Jefferson's plans. The courthouse burned ...

Buckingham County / Fluvanna County

(Buckingham County Side):

Located in the geographical center of Virginia, Buckingham County, the only county in the United States to bear that name, was formed in 1761 from Albemarle County. It is not known for which of the many Buckinghams in ...

Buckingham County / Cumberland County

(Obverse) Buckingham County

Area 584 square miles

Formed in 1761 from Albemarle, and named for Buckinghamshire, England. Peter Francisco, noted Revolutionary soldier, lived in this county.

(Reverse) Cumberland County

Area 293 square miles

Formed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, ...