By Staff Reports on 25 January 2010
“The national economic recession had a significant impact.”
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By Jim Lighthizer on 22 January 2010
This site links the Railroad Depot with Appomattox Court House.
Posted in Feature, News, Places | Tagged Appomattox Court House, Civil War Preservation Trust, Railroad Depot
By admin on 19 October 2009
[ 21 October 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Learn about the natural, plantation, and ornamental landscapes of Jefferson’s Bedford County retreat.
Posted in Calendar, Events, News, Places | Tagged Lynchburg College, Poplar Forest
By Staff Reports on 21 September 2009
[ 10 October 2009; ] The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), the nation’s largest nonprofit battlefield preservation organization, is accepting nominations through its website for an annual report on endangered Civil War battlefields.
Posted in Calendar, News, Places | Tagged Civil War Preservation Trust
By Staff Reports on 21 September 2009
[ 26 September 2009; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] On Saturday, September 26, 2009, the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) will participate in the fifth annual Museum Day presented by Smithsonian magazine.
Posted in Calendar, Events, Places | Tagged Museum Day, Smithsonian
By Staff Reports on 28 August 2009
[ 24 October 2009; 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] The Mariners’ Museum is offering a guided tour focusing on Civil War Petersburg on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Led by historian A. Wilson Greene, participants will visit the streets of the wartime city, and the battlefields that determined its fate, during the longest sustained military campaign of the Civil War from 1864 to 1865. The itinerary includes Pamplin Historical Park, the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, Blandford Church and Cemetery, and the infamous Crater, a section of Petersburg National Battlefield.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged Civil War, Pamplin, Petersburg
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 9 September 2009; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Virginia Historical Society’s (VHS) visit to the state’s heartland begins with a visit to the D-Day Memorial in Bedford County. This rural community experienced the country’s severest per capita losses on D-Day. The Memorial is a tribute to the valor, fidelity, and scarify of the Armed Forces on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged National D-Day Memorial, Poplar Forest, VHS
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 3 September 2009; 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. ] Virginia Historical Society (VHS) Trustee and Fourth Circuit Judge Roger Gregory will take VHS members behind-the-scenes of this National Historical Landmark which dates to 1858. Now named the Lewis F. Powell, Jr., U.S. Courthouse, it is an impressive example of the Italianate architecture that became popular in this country during the third quarter of the nineteenth century.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged Richmond, VHS
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 11 September 2009 to 12 September 2009. ] Take a trip with the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) along the spectacular cliffs of the Potomac River in an area rich in paleontology, ecology and history. The 140-foot high cliffs expose sediment ranging for 3.5 million to 14 million years old, and have produced fossils of whales, seals, crocodiles, sharks and numerous seashells.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged Potomac River, VMNH, Westmoreland State Park
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 19 September 2009; ] Woodbury Historical Tours, along with with NPS historian, Patrick Schroeder, will gather for breakfast at a local Appomattox eatery, scrutinize maps and discuss itinerary and then head out for a full day of touring with a lunch stop at the historic Babcock House. Lunch is included with the day’s fee, which is $125 per person.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged Civil War Preservation Trust, Woodbury Historical Tours
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