Lawrenceville, Virginia

 town, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, county seat, historic district

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The majority of the town of Lawrenceville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a historic district.

"Much of [the growth of Lawrenceville] was directly related to the coming of the Atlantic and Danville Railroad in 1891, which tied the broad local agricultural base to national markets. At the same time, James Solomon, an Episcopal priest and former slave, founded St Paul’s College, a private African American college. The district includes the courthouse square, the college, blocks of commercial buildings built between 1870 and 1940, and residential areas with domestic structures primarily from the 1890s to 1920. In addition, it includes a variety of public buildings, railroad-related resources and well-preserved recreational facilities built by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA), federal New Deal programs in the 1930s. Few large towns have such a cohesive and complete fabric."
-- Virginia Department of Historic Resources

NRHP #00000313