Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, lies just a short drive away and provides insight into the earlier, more desperate days of English colonization. Yorktown, where the ...

Smithfield, Virginia, is full of charm, with historic homes, scenic riverfront parks, quirky pig statues, local shops, and ...

Doncastle’s Ordinary played an important role in the aftermath of orders from British royal governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, to steal the gunpowder from the public magazine in ...

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County.

Several U.S. Army bases, including three in Virginia, will return to their original Confederate-linked names. However, their official namesakes were changed to comply with an act of Congress.

Maps also show a cemetery existing in that spot in 1876, after the Civil War. The study found “a circumstantial case that the property was used for wartime burials," while the research also “indicates ...

A Confederate sergeant of the 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment prepared his soldiers at camp for the impending “Battle of Siemers Farm.” “Prepare to die, 14th Virginia,” he told his troops.

The Virginia NAACP wants legislative elections this year under new General Assembly maps that the Virginia Supreme Court approved in late December, not as scheduled in 2023.

A map of Virginia counties. In a pitched legal battle between the American media and the Virginia commonwealth, the press on Tuesday accused the commonwealth of attempting to deceive the Fourth ...