Extending Your Stay?

Planning to stay any additional time in the Old Dominion following this year's Professional Development Seminar?  There's so much to see and do!

Listed below are a few suggestions:

The Carytown Food & Wine Festival
Sunday, October 7, 12-6PM
With hundreds of locally owned shops, boutiques, restaurants and specialty stores, there's something for everyone in Carytown!

The Food and Wine Festival spotlights not only the great wines of the region, but the incredible food that is prepared by area restaurants.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, click here.

The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar

The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar is located on 8 acres on the historic James River in downtown Richmond. A National Historic Landmark, the Tredegar site contains five surviving buildings illustrating the Iron Works era. The National Park Service operates the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitor Center located in the restored Pattern Building.

The Museum & White House of the Confederacy

“One of the outstanding strengths of The Museum of the Confederacy is that it humanizes and personalizes this seminal event in our national life. In its exhibits, programs and publications, the Museum allows the participants in this terrible struggle to speak for themselves, to tell their own storied in their own voices and in their own way. The Museum of the Confederacy is a national treasure, an unmatched resource for anyone who wants to understand this nation in the twenty-first century.” -Ken Burns

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's House, ca. 1790

818 East Marshall St., Richmond, VA 23219

Listed on the National and Virginia historic registers, the John Marshall House has undergone remarkably few changes since Marshall’s lifetime.  The property remained in the Marshall family until 1911 when it was sold to the City of Richmond.  Preservation Virginia has operated the John Marshall House as a museum since 1913 and is celebrating a century of preservation.

Attractions outside Richmond:

Colonial Williamsburg - the restored 18th-century capital of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World. (Less than one hour Southeast of Downtown Richmond)

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Situated on a mountaintop outside Charlottesville, Virginia, Monticello, a 5,000-acre plantation, was the home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. (Less than one hour West of Downtown Richmond)

George Washington's Mount Vernon - George Washington’s plantation on the banks of the beautiful Potomac River offers visitors a chance to understand America’s first hero and the fascinating world in which he lived. Over 1 million visitors come to walk in Washington’s footsteps each year, making Mount Vernon the most popular historic estate in America.

Washington, D.C. - Our Nation's Capital, located approximately two hours North of Downtown Richmond.

Have a question about a Virginia destination?  Just ask some one from the Host State staff!