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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The call that beckoned me back to my earliest roots on American soil, wasn’t even about my roots at all. It was about a job at 8News. I moved to Richmond, excited about the ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — My family history journey ended with me at Mt. Airy in Warsaw — now a working farm, formerly a plantation — meeting with a descendant of the family who owned mine. But my ...

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 ...

Casa Bianca Missionary Baptist Church in Monticello and congregation welcomed descendants from the former Virginia home of President James Monroe.

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

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 ...