Cheap Things To Do in Waverly, Virginia

Victorian house, folk art and first peanut museum in USA. More on Virginia.org

Miles B. Carpenter Museum in Waverly, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum ... More on MuseumsUSA.org

Story of peanuts through pictures, antique farm machinery and equipment. More on Virginia.org

Inscription. One mile southwest, on September 16, 1864, General Wade Hampton's Confederate Cavalry herded about 2500 head of captured cattle across the Nottoway River, while two miles northwest, at Belsches' Mill, Federal troops sent ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Nearby to the northeast stood Ellis Preaching House, an early Methodist meetingplace in Sussex County. Francis Asbury, a pioneering Methodist leader and circuit rider, first visited the Ellis family in 1775 and later ... More on HMDB

Inscription. A Nottoway Indian town was located two miles south at the springs when the English settlement was established at Jamestown in 1607. The Nottoways gave the three springs the name, Coppahaunk, meaning "good health or healing ... More on HMDB

Inscription. One mile northwest Dr. Matthew Harris grew the first commercial crop of peanuts in the United States, according to tradition, in or soon after 1842. , Erected 1959 by Virginia State library. (Marker Number K 306: ), ... More on HMDB

Inscription. One mile south on Seacock Swamp stood the home of Col. Michael Blow. He was the first Chairman of the Committee of Safety of Sussex County, member of the House of Burgesses, member of the First Virginia Convention (1774), ... More on HMDB

Inscription. (Obverse), Sussex County, Area 515 Square Miles: Formed in 1753 from Surry, and named for an English county. Cornwallis passed through this county in 1781. (Reverse), Southampton County, Area 604 Square Miles: Formed ... More on HMDB

Built by William Byrd II in 1730, it is the nation's premier example of a Georgian domestic complex. Its st... More on Virginia.org

We visited towards the end of October when there wasn't anything but a few blooms scattered, but there was ... More on TripAdvisor

Inscription. Four miles north on James River. There, on January 3, 1781, Benedict Arnold, ascending the river, was fired on by cannon. On January 10, Arnold, returning, sent ashore there a force that was ambushed by George Rogers ... More on HMDB