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Theatre group. Location. 127 West Main Street, Abingdon, Virginia. Artistic director (s) Katy Brown. Website. www.bartertheatre.com. Barter Theatre, in Abingdon, Virginia, opened on June 10, 1933. It is the longest-running professional Equity theatre in the United States.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Abingdon Historic District is a national historic district located at Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. The district encompasses 145 contributing buildings, 2 contributing site, and 13 contributing structures in the town of Abingdon. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from the late-18th ...
October 15, 1966. Chatham Manor is a Georgian-style mansion home completed in 1771 by farmer and statesman William Fitzhugh, after about three years of construction, on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, opposite Fredericksburg. It was for more than a century the center of a large, thriving plantation and the only private ...
Robert Porterfield. Robert Huffard Porterfield (December 21, 1905 – October 28, 1971) was an American actor and theatre director who was known for founding the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia . The theatre was founded in 1933 [ 1] during the Great Depression. In 1941, it was designated as the State Theatre of Virginia, but with the ...
2. Brompton. Brompton. July 24, 1979. (#79003279) Hanover St. and Sunken Rd. 38°17′46″N 77°28′11″W / 38.296111°N 77.469722°W / 38.296111; -77.469722 (Brompton) Residence of the President of the University of Mary Washington; headquarters of Confederate General James Longstreet during the Battle of Fredericksburg ...
Fredericksburg's daily newspaper is The Free Lance–Star. The Free Lance was first published in 1885, and competed with two twice-weekly papers in the city during the late 19th century, the Fredericksburg News and The Virginia Star. While the News folded in 1884, the Star moved to daily publication in 1893. In 1900, the two companies merged ...
51-00148 [ 3 ] GNIS feature ID. 1498444 [ 4 ] Website. www.abingdon-va.gov. Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, United States, 133 miles (214 km) southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,376 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. [ 5 ]