History

This area has played gracious host to famous and ordinary travelers from many generations. We invite you to join them and add your family’s name to the Fredericksburg registry with the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman and more.

The Arts

The Arts can be enjoyed virtually everywhere in the Fredericksburg region from the myriad of downtown galleries and studios to performing arts at the University of Mary Washington and the Riverside Dinner Theater to Civil War photography and the historic home American Impressionist Gari Melchers.