Built in 1860 as a resting stop for Central Virginia Railway travelers, the Confederates took it over in 1862 and converted into a hospital.
"...Although this was primarily a Confederate facility, the hospital treated the wounded from both sides. 26 Union soldiers died here. The year of 1864 proved to be very busy with 23,000 treated and in June alone 6,000 treated. By war's end over 70,000 men had been treated at the Gordonsville Receiving Hospital and just over 700 would be buried on its surrounding grounds.
By 1865, the Exchange Hotel had been reduced to a shadow of its former self, but the hotel flourished once again as Virginia and the United States healed, until the railroads by-passed Gordonsville, returning it to the quiet rural community of today..."
Today it is a Civil War hospital museum after being saved and restored to its former glory by the residents of Gordonsville.