Geographical Center of Virginia

About two miles south and one-half mile west is the geographical center of the state. Latitude: 37° 30.6' north Longitude: 78° 37.5' west

Marker is at the intersection of Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) and Mount Rush Highway (Virginia Route 24), on ...

Virginia Militia

1781 Siege of Yorktown

The approaching Season obliges me to recommend to you … to use your utmost Efforts for furnishing the Virginia Troops with Cloathing. You will therefore … adopt … Measures to send them down immediately – As their ...

Southside Virginia Community College

Keysville, Virginia

Southside Virginia Community College has two campuses: the Christanna Campus in Alberta, which opened in 1970, and the John H. Daniel campus in Keysville, which opened in 1971. The college is part of the statewide system of community colleges ...

Colonel Weisiger's Virginians

May 24, 1864 1:00pm - 4:00pm

The five Virginia regiments led by Colonel David A. Weisiger began construction of the trenches before you on the morning of May 24 and continued to work on them during the next two days. The ...

Virginiatown

Founded June 1851 - Commonly called 'Virginia.' Over 2,000 miners worked rich deposits. Captain John Brislow built California's first railroad, 1852, to carry pay to Auburn Ravine, a distance of one mile. Site of Philip Armour's and George Aldrich's butcher ...

Southside Virginia Community College

Keysville, Virginia

Southside Virginia Community College has two campuses: the Christanna Campus in Alberta, which opened in 1970, and the John H. Daniel campus in Keysville, which opened in 1971. The college is part of the statewide system of community colleges ...

The Penna. - Virginia Boundary

Survey was completed Aug. 23, 1785. Surveyors for PA. were David Rittenhouse and Col. Andrew Porter. For Virginia Andrew Ellicott and Joseph Neville. On Sept. 30, 1785 the Northwest Territory Survey began on the north shore.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Virginia House

Architectural elements of the Priory of Saint Sepulcher (Warwick Priory), originally built more than 900 years ago, were transplanted from England to Richmond in 1925 by American diplomat Alexander Wilbourne Weddell and his wife, Virginia. Reconfigured and renamed Virginia House, ...

Virginia Institute

Near this spot stood the frame dwelling of David Frederick Bittle, pastor of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church, in which he began in the Fall of 1842, with the assistance of Christopher C. Baughman, also a Lutheran minister, a school for ...

Virginia Historical Society

Founded in 1831, the Virginia Historical Society is the oldest such institution in the South. It was located in the Stewart-Lee house in downtown Richmond until 1959, when it moved to its present quarters in Battle Abbey. The Society's extensive ...