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Virginia Historical Marker Ceremony To Honor Monacan Indian Town of Mowhemcho

By Staff Reports on 20 April 2009

A new historical highway marker issued by the Department of Historic Resources that commemorates Mowhemcho, a Monacan Indian town that was destroyed by colonists, then later settled by French Huguenots and renamed Manakin, will be dedicated Sunday, April 26.
The public ceremony to unveil the marker will begin at 3 p.m., at Manakin Episcopal Church, 985 [...]

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Women’s History Month and Anne Woodlief

Women’s History Month and Anne Woodlief

By Linda Goin on 2 March 2009

March is Women’s History Month, and the first day of this month marked no better time to meet Ann Woodlief, a former English professor at VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University), an author, a genealogy buff, and a Huguenot descendant.

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