Seal of the City of Virginia Beach

The Cape Henry Lighthouse & Cross in the seal's center symbolize the beginning of Virginia Beach as well as the United States. The bright sky, sunshine, blue water & sandy beach indicate the importance of tourism & the pleasure of ...

Virginia Union University

The result of the merging on this site in 1899 of two institutions founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society as follows:

1865 - Richmond Theological School for Freemen

1865 - Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.

1932 - Hartshorn Memorial College (opened in ...

Jackson's Virginia Battery

Buckner's Division

C.S.A.

Brigadier General

Simon B. Buckner's Division

Jackson's Virginia BatteryThis battery of four pieces occupied this position on the night of February 13, 1862. On February 15, it proceeded with the division to the left of the intrenchments where it participated in ...

The 1936 Virginia Prison Recordings

In 1936 famed folklorist John A. Lomax visited the Virginia State Prison Farm here and at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. Working for the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Song, Lomax canvassed southern prisons in search of traditional ...

The College of William and Mary in Virginia

A charter was granted by King William and Queen Mary in 1693, by fostering “good arts and sciences,” and by educating the youth in “good letters and manners,” the College has maintained its original mission as “a place of universal ...

Mary Virginia Wade

Jennie Wade

Aged 20 yrs. 2 mos

killed July 3, 1863

while making bread

for the Union soldiers.

What soever God

willeth must be

though a Nation

mourn.

With a courage

born of loyalty,

she hath done

what she could.

Erected by the

Woman’s Relief Corps.

of Iowa A.D. 1901

Marker can be reached from Baltimore ...

Salem Virginia Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Artillery Reserve

1st Virginia Artillery Hupp's Battery

Salem Virginia Artillery

Two 3 inch Rifles - Two Napoleons

July 1 The Battery reached the field too late to participate in the engagement of the day.

July 2 ...

7th West Virginia Infantry

7th West Virginia

Infantry

The end of charge

July 2, 1863.

Marker can be reached from Wainwright Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The New Fort in Virginia / Virginia Dare

On this site, in July – August, 1585 (O.S.), colonists, sent out from England by Sir Walter Raleigh, built a fort, called by them

“The New Fort in Virginia”

These colonists were the first settlers of the English race in America. They ...

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Five miles south lies the main campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, founded in 1872 as a land-grant college specializing in agriculture and mechanical arts. The land-grant college system initiated scientific agricultural and industrial instruction in the Commonwealth. ...