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 [...]
Posted in News, People | Tagged Huguenot, James River, John Lederer, Monacan
By Linda Goin on 9 March 2009
On this day in 1894 the “vestibuled” train on the Norfolk and Western run from Washington to Chattanooga was hit by a landslide forty miles north of Roanoke.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged James River, Roanoke Virginia, Virginia Tech
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.
Posted in Feature | Tagged Huguenot, James River, Virginia
By Linda Goin on 20 February 2009
On this day in history in 1962, the Beckley, West Virginia Post-Herald reported news about a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate aimed at blocking a proposed pipeline designed to carry coal slurry from West Virginia across Virginia to the port of Hampton Roads. The two senators who proposed the bill were Senator Hale Collins from Alleghany County and Senator Charles T. Moses from Appomattox County.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Hampton Roads, James River, Virginia Senate, West Virginia
By Linda Goin on 12 February 2009
Today in 1864, the Janesville Weekly Gazette out of Janesville Wisconsin reported how the Civil War might end shortly.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Appomattox Campaign, Civil War, James River, Siege of Petersburg
By Linda Goin on 18 December 2008
On this date in 1975, the James River was closed to fishing following Kepone chemical pollution by order of then-Governor Mills Godwin. The previous week, the State Department of Health had ordered an end to shell fishing in the James because sewage pollution had tarnished the waters.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Protection Agency, James River, State Health Department
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