Centreville, VA

Location: Centreville, Virginia, USA
Date visited: October 2013

On a rainy furloughed day, my friend and I took advantage of the time off to visit the Stuart Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museum right here in my home town. I visited once before a few years ago during their open house, but the collection is much more extensive now. We were also treated to a common perk at such tiny museums: a private tour of everything. The men working there were extremely knowledgeable and personable. Good times.

Centreville, VA

Location: Centreville, Virginia, USA

Despite living here for over four years, 2011 was my very first visit to Centreville Day. The very notion of "historic downtown Centreville" was somewhat amusing to me, since we don't really have a downtown area, but there are a handful of structures still standing in the tiny area that has been known as Centreville since the 1720s. It was really great to tour the historic structures around the area and the fascinating Spindle Sears House - a house bought from the Sears catalog in the 1930s. I also got to talk to some lovely folks from Patch, the Bull Run Civil War Round Table, and the NoVa Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Virginia. I was amused when the lady from Shen Yu was absolutely convinced she'd met me two weeks before at a wine festival I hadn't attended, and the treats I enjoyed from Mindy's Cupcakes and Gotta Have Chocolate were simply fabulous.

I'll definitely be stopping by again next year.