Community Archives Directory

Description: The Central Rappahannock Heritage Center collects and preserves historical documents and photographs pertaining to the history and people from the City of Fredericksburg and the counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford in Virginia. The CRHC is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization whose mission is to preserve historically valuable material of the region and make it available to the public for research.

Description: Surry County, VA Historical Society and Museums, Inc. has a collection of research materials, including books, maps, and loose papers on file that offer information mainly from Colonial times to the present, with some earlier material. Surry County is located across the James River from Jamestown and Williamsburg, and was used and visited by early Jamestown settlers for farming and settlement. Our Courthouse has many early records, and we have several historic places in our county. We can help with some research that is requested by email, letters, and phone calls, and people do come to us to do research through our materials. We do not have our items digitalized for research online.

Description: The Vinton History Museum has thousands of artifacts of Vinton, Virginia and surrounding areas. They include items, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, family files, displays, records of the Vinton Historical Society, and much more.