Henrico County, VA

There is a wide selection of attractions and activities in the county: you can visit Stuart’s Monument, where Major General J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded during the Civil War; tour the Virginia E. Randolph Museum, named in memory of a noted African-American educator and founder of Virginia's vocational educational system; step back in time at Meadow Farm Museum and Crump Park, featuring a 19th-century farmhouse, gardens and more than 150 acres of woodlands; and, discover a nature lover's paradise at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, which boasts 40 acres of grounds, one of the largest and most diverse perennial gardens on the East Coast, and a nearly 17,000-square-foot Conservatory, housing exotic and unusual subtropical and tropical plants.