WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A lovingly preserved vestige of Virginia’s plantation past is up for sale, offering a centuries-old brick-and-mortar link to the first European settlers. Carter’s Grove will ...
The Woodlawn plantation in Northern Virginia has long been one of those iconic sites of American history. Once part of a massive Mount Vernon property, it was home to George Washington’s ...
JAMES CITY — A proposed housing development has landed Kingsmill on the James’ namesake historical site on Preservation Virginia’s 2025 list of Most Endangered Historic Places. Escalante Golf, owner ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- There's a lot to see and do at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts including an opportunity to catch the latest exhibition "Dawoud Bey: Elegy." “He's an extraordinary photographer," said ...
DANVILLE — A decision to move the remains of hundreds of African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of emotions among ...
DANVILLE, Va. — A decision to move the remains of hundreds African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of emotions among ...
Have you ever been to the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City? I went to the annual event for the first time. It takes place on the first Sunday in November. The step ...
Smithfield Plantation is at the heart of Virginia Tech. It is the sole institution that evolved into what we now know as Virginia Tech. When we visit the historical narrative that conjoins the two ...
WARSAW, Va. (WRIC) — For most people descended from enslaved Black Americans, the process of finding their roots goes something like this; they crack open Census records to track back from a ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Three plantations with deep roots in colonial Virginia are going up for sale, but with a twist: the latest sellers are the current governor of West Virginia and his family. Jay ...