Guest lecturer, Ed White, University of Virginia law graduate, and former State Assistant Attorney General joins us to enlighten us about Virginia’s Northern Neck. Virginia’s Northern Neck is the birthplace of George Washington and Robert E Lee, home to Francis Lightfoot Lee and Richard Henry Lee, and the site of such icons of early colonial architecture as Mount …
Excerpt from: Letters Home of Gold Fields and Lost Ships: Correspondence from Thomas W. Badger and Thomas N. Badger to Relatives on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1863 – 1953 by Curtis J. Badger and Lynn M. Badger Published by: Salt Water Media When visiting family back home in Virginia, Thomas would take a ship from Oakland …
Thomas W. Badger and the sinking of the Central America Read More »
Friday, May 9, 2014 8:30 am Leave Williamsburg – Target Monticello Parking Lot Arrive in Saluda via Puller Memorial Highway and go by his house 10 AM Middlesex County Museum and Clerk’s Office Tour Saluda Antioch Church Saluda (at rear of Courthouse) 11:30 Lunch “Something Different” Urbanna (Danny Gil, Owner, will join us. He is a …
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Formerly known as the Colonial Capital Branch of Preservation Virginia, the society aims to promote the heritage of the region. For immediate release. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Following 125 years of service to the preservation of Virginia’s antiquities as the Colonial Capital Branch of Preservation Virginia, the Williamsburg based historical society is expanding its services into the …
Tidewater Virginia Historical Society Forms in Williamsburg Read More »
The museum trail will feature nearly 40 sites, some of them somewhat “off the beaten path”, and a web site that will lead visitors along an exciting path of discovery. For immediate release. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Visitors and residents of Tidewater, Va. will soon have a roadmap to lead them from the famed Colonial Williamsburg …
