The stories of Bedford County, VA
17 narrated audio stories from across Bedford County — hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore from its towns, landmarks, and back roads.
Legacy Museum of African American History
Beyond the Courthouse Lawn
A museum gathers the Black history local monuments often leave out.
Buford's Tavern
Where the Beale Mystery Parts Company With the Tavern
A historic tavern, a famous pamphlet, and the stubborn difference between legend and proof.
Peaks of Otter
Hidden in the Hollows of the Peaks of Otter
How rugged mountain life helped conceal illicit distilling near the Peaks of Otter.
Elks National Home
A Hilltop Promise in Bedford
How Bedford became home to the Elks’ national retirement community.
Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library
Where Bedford’s Memory Keeps Its Address
A place where Bedford’s people, records, and streets meet.
Avenel
Avenel and the Social Life of Memory
A preserved Bedford house keeps early domestic history in public view.
Flat Top Manor
Where Elegance Met the Peaks
A mountain manor that turned status into scenery, then opened its doors to everyone.
Bower Center for the Arts
Where a Bedford School Learned a New Purpose
A former elementary school becomes Bedford’s living home for art and performance.
Poplar Forest
Jefferson’s Quiet Experiment at Poplar Forest
An architectural retreat shaped by solitude, geometry, and contradiction.
Flat Top Manor
From Private Retreat to Parkway Landmark
How Flat Top Manor opened a once-private mountain world to the public.
Bedford city
When Bedford Stopped Being a City
A small Virginia community took an unusual path through local government.
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Where Booker T. Washington’s Story Began
At the farm where slavery shaped the first chapter of a national figure.
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Where Booker T. Washington’s Story Begins
A birthplace landscape that reveals lives shaped by labor, family, and survival.
National D-Day Memorial
How Bedford’s Grief Became the Nation’s D-Day Memorial
A small town’s losses helped shape a national place of remembrance.
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
How Poplar Forest Came Back
A plantation retreat, transformed and restored across generations.
National D-Day Memorial
When Bedford Opened D-Day to the Nation
A small Virginia town gave national form to a day of enormous loss.
Bedford County
When D-Day Reached Bedford
How one small Virginia community felt D-Day all at once.
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