Showing posts with label Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia. Show all posts
Apr 8, 2022

Battle of Appomattox Station

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(Wikipedia) ... After the Battle of Cumberland Church on April 7, Lee's army made a third consecutive night march in an effort to stay ...
Apr 7, 2022

Battle of High Bridge

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(Wikipedia) The Battle of High Bridge refers to two engagements fought on April 6, 1865 and April 7, 1865, near the end of the Appomattox C...
Apr 5, 2022

Battle of Amelia Springs

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Tom Rosser (Wikipedia) The Battle of Amelia Springs, Virginia was an engagement between the Union Army (Army of the Shenandoah, Army of the...
Feb 9, 2017

Teenagers Who Vandalized Historic Black Schoolhouse Are Ordered to Read Books

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(NYTimes) After five teenagers defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti last year, a judge h...
Dec 14, 2009

Cold War Museum Finds a Home

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(HistoryNet) Francis Gary Powers, Jr., the Founder of The Cold War Museum ( http://www.coldwar.org/ ), announced today that the museum had f...
Dec 13, 2009

Video: THE RURAL CO-OP, ca. 1945 - ca. 1955

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"Shows how farmers in Rockingham County, Va. improved their businesses by forming cooperative enterprises. R.1. Farmers conduct busines...
Dec 12, 2009

Christmas in Williamsburg

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(Baltimore Sun) If your only exposure to Colonial Williamsburg occurred in the company of a busload of unruly middle-schoolers, you owe your...
Dec 8, 2009

Eliza Poe

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(Wikipedia) Elizabeth Arnold Poe (1787 – December 8, 1811) was an English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar ...
Dec 7, 2009

Norfolk and Western 611

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(Wikipedia) ... 611's last official day of being under steam was December 7, 1994, the 53rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day . Between Sa...
Dec 1, 2009

For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For

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(NYTimes) ... Disenchantment is Poe’s intellectual theme as well. He scorns the Transcendentalists and other American writers with their vis...
Nov 30, 2009

Maryland orchard on quest to restore American chestnut with aid of Chinese cousin

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(Baltimore Sun) From the time before English colonization until the dawn of the 20th century, the American chestnut was one of the most magn...
Nov 9, 2009

Mule-yachting on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: a picturesque and leisurely form of diversion

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"The Memorial day excursion to Great Falls on the canal, held under the auspices of the District Library Association, was deemed a very...
Oct 31, 2009

The Witch of Pungo

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(HMDB) The witchcraft case of Grace Sherwood is one of the best known in Virginia. She was accused of bewitching a neighbor’s crop in 1698. ...
Oct 29, 2009

Sir Walter Raleigh

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(Wikipedia) Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was a English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, cou...
Oct 21, 2009

Superman-atee: Did Ilya the Manatee Swim to Virgina?

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According to today's Richmond Times Dispatch , a manatee has been spotted in the James River. Could it be Ilya? According to what I'...
Oct 18, 2009

36 Hours in Richmond, Va.

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(NYTimes) AS the heart of the old Confederacy, Richmond, Va., watched with envy as other cities like Atlanta and Charlotte became the econom...
Oct 17, 2009

Old-Timer, Still Telling Mountain Tales

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(NYTimes) Ralph Stanley is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians. He’s such a stickler that he has no...
Oct 16, 2009

Retracing John Brown’s incendiary footsteps

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those det...
Oct 9, 2009

The Woodstock Races

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(Wikipedia) The Battle of Tom's Brook was fought on October 9, 1864, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, during Philip Sheridan's Shen...
Oct 7, 2009

Royal Proclamation of 1763

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(Wikipedia) The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of Frenc...