15 December 2011- (From the Virginia Department of Historic Resources) Lynchburg's Fifth Street Historic District, located southwest of the city’s central business area, arose as an important African American business district during the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. In the early 19th century the area developed as a gateway to the west with several taverns and commercial establishments there. During the late 19th century, the Fifth Street corridor hosted high-end residential neighborhoods for Lynchburg‘s white population while it was also the primary scene of commerce for the area‘s African American community. The corridor also developed as an automobile sales and service district of gas stations and garages, tire and auto parts stores, and showrooms. The Fifth Street Historic District has a period of significance ranging from 1800 to 1964, beginning with the date of construction for the oldest standing resource and concluding with the end of significant commercial expansion in the district.

15 December 2011- (From the Virginia Department of Historic Resources) Occupying 362 acres in mountainous Bland County, the Updyke Farm features a main dwelling built circa 1910  for Junius Marcellus Updyke. With its main house and associated outbuildings, it exemplifies early-20th century vernacular domestic and agricultural architecture in southwest Virginia. Character-defining features of the house include a full-length front porch supported by columns and pent roofs in the gable ends; both the columns and pent roofs were atypical architectural elements for houses in Bland County at that time. The property also includes an unusual two-story smokehouse (also with pent roofs) and an intact collection of early 20th century agricultural outbuildings, as well as a family cemetery with four graves, the earliest dating to 1912.