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Westmoreland County, Virginia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

26historic places

—earliest paper

1653formed

18,477pop. 2020

13cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 26 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Montross, Oak Grove, Hague.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Westmoreland titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 26 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

26 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bell House	Colonial Beach	Building	1987
Blenheim	Wakefield Corner	Building	1975
Bushfield	Mount Holly	Building	2004
Chantilly	Montross	Site	1971
Colonial Beach Commercial Historic District	Colonial Beach	District	2021
George Washington Birthplace National Monument	Fredericksburg	District	1966
Ingleside	Oak Grove	Building	1979
Johnson, Armstead T., High School	Montross	Building	1998
Jones, Morgan, 1677 Pottery Kiln	Hague	Site	1974
Kinsale Historic District	Kinsale	District	2005
Kirnan - China Hall	Hague	Building	2019
Monroe, James, Family Home Site	Oak Grove	Site	1979
Monroe, James, Family Home Site (Boundary Increase)	Monroe Hall	Building	2008
Montross Historic District	Montross	District	2023
Mount Pleasant	Hague	Building	2002
Panorama	Montross	Building	2011
Rochester House	Lyells	Building	1991
Roxbury	Oak Grove	Building	1979
Spence's Point NHL	Westmoreland	Building	1971
Spring Grove	Mt. Holly	Building	1985
St. Peter's Episcopal Church	Oak Grove	Building	2004
Stratford Hall NHL	Lerty	Building	1966
Westmoreland State Park Historic District	Montross	District	2005
Wirtland	Oak Grove	Building	1979
Woodbourne	Kinsale	Building	2025
Yeocomico Church NHL	Tucker Hill	Building	1969

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Westmoreland was formed in 1653 (1653-12-31) from Northumberland.

[1653] WESTMORELAND created from NORTHUMBERLAND.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Westmoreland County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
7,722	6,901	8,019	8,282	8,846	9,243	10,240	9,512	10,148	11,042	14,041	16,718	18,477

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument	National Monument	13.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

13 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bailey Cemetery	38.02846	-76.57579
Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery	37.99957	-76.72829
Burnt House Field - Lee Family Cemetery	38.08684	-76.64591
Carmel United Methodist Church Cemetery	38.0431	-76.62198
Currioman Baptist Church Cemetery	38.12831	-76.80292
Ebenezer United Methodist Church Cemetery	38.00467	-76.66205
Grace Cemetery	38.1769	-77.03838
Little Zion Cemetery	38.17541	-76.99386
Oak Grove Cemetery	38.18208	-77.00386
Potomac Baptist Church Cemetery	38.06114	-76.66996
Sharp Hill Cemetery	38.25874	-77.04247
Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery	38.14574	-76.84855
Washington Cemetery	38.19652	-76.93136

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Harts	38.1343	-76.92469
Wakefield	38.18624	-76.92358

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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