The following links represent resources for and about Virginia history. Thse resources are located within the State of Virginia and they all contain online information, documents or other resources. If you would like to add a link to this list, please contact Linda at “publisher @ appomattoxnews.com” (remove spaces and quotes).
- Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities: APVA Preservation Virginia is a private non-profit organization and statewide historic preservation leader founded in 1889. Located in Richmond, they are dedicated to perpetuating and revitalizing Virginia’s cultural, architectural and historic heritage thereby ensuring that historic places are integral parts of the lives of present and future generations.
- Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia: Located in Richmond, this organization’s goal is to become a statewide resource on the many facets of Black history through exhibitions, discussions and celebrations.
- Blue Ridge Institute and Museum: For over 30 years Ferrum College’s Blue Ridge Institute & Museum has documented the folkways of the people living in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains.
- Casemate Museum, Fort Monroe: As early as 1608, Captain John Smith recognized the importance of building a fort at Point Comfort, as the English colonists called this land. Today, Fort Monroe continues to have an important effect on the history of our nation and the Army.
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world’s largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia – the restored 18th-century capital of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World.
- Frontier Cultural Museum: Located in Staunton, the Frontier Culture Museum is an outdoor, living-history museum and educational institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- George C. Marshall Foundation: Located in Lexington, the George C. Marshall Foundation conducts many educational and outreach programs which strengthen the Foundation’s mission of extending the legacy of George Catlett Marshall.
- History is Fun: Experience the story of America’s beginnings at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center through film, artifact-filled galleries and outdoor living history.
- James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library: The James Monroe Museum & Memorial Library, in historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the largest repository in the country of artifacts and documents related to the fifth president of the United States.
- Jamestown 2007: This is the 400th Anniversary Legacy Site for the founding of Jamestown in 1607.
- Library of Virginia: This Richmond library contains collections include books, magazines, newspapers, state and Federal publications; county and city government records, state government records, architectural drawings and plans, Bible records, business records, organization records, personal papers, genealogical notes and charts; maps, rare books, broadsides, sheet music, posters, prints and engravings, postcards, paintings, sculpture and photographs.
- Mariner’s Museum: Located in Newport News, this museum tracks mariner history with activities, exhibitions and more.
- Museum of the Confederacy: Located in Richmond, the Museum of the Confederacy’s rich collection of civilian and military Civil War artifacts relating to the Confederate States of America, as well as the post-war “Lost Cause” era, is a valuable resource for the study of the role of the Confederacy in the War and in our society today.
- Omohundro Institute: The College of William and Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation founded the Institute of Early American History and Culture in 1943 and still jointly sponsor its work. In 1996 the College and Colonial Williamsburg added Omohundro to the Institute’s name in recognition of a generous endowment bequest pledged by Mr. and Mrs. Malvern H. Omohundro, Jr.
- Richmond History Center: The mission of the Valentine Richmond History Center is to engage, educate, and challenge a diverse audience by collecting, preserving, and interpreting Richmond’s history.
- U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum: Since 1957 the Quartermaster Museum has preserved the history and heritage of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, the Army’s oldest logistic branch. For more than two centuries Quartermaster soldiers have fed, clothed and equipped the United States Army.
- U.S. Army Women’s Museum: The U.S. Army Women’s Museum serves as an educational institution, providing military history training and instruction to soldiers, veterans and the civilian community. The museum is the custodian and repository of artifacts and archival material pertaining to the service of women across all branches and organizations of the U.S. Army from inception to the present day.
- Virginia Aviation Museum: Located in Richmond, the Virginia Aviation Museum features the spectacular SR-71 Blackbird; 36 historic, vintage aircraft; reproductions of the Wright brothers’ kite, gliders and famous 1903 Flyer; early flight memorabilia; a World War II diorama that includes the Tuskegee Airmen and Women’s Airforce Service Pilots; and the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.
- Virginia Department of Historic Resources: The Virginia Department of Historic Resources is the State Historic Preservation Office. Their mission is to foster, encourage, and support the stewardship of Virginia’s significant historic, architectural, archaeological, and cultural resources.
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) brings the humanities fully into Virginia’s public life, assisting individuals and communities in their efforts to understand the past, confront important issues in the present, and shape a promising future.
- Virginia Historical Society: The Virginia Historical Society is located in the Museum District, West of the Boulevard, near Richmond’s historic Fan District. Richmond’s most popular museums are conveniently located within minutes of each other on the Boulevard. Travel this cultural corridor and experience the area’s premier gardens, history, art galleries, interactive science and technology exhibits, programs, special events, and shops.
- Virginia Holocaust Museum: The Virginia Holocaust Museum was founded in 1997 by Mark Fetter, Al Rosenbaum, and one of Richmond’s youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, in an effort to preserve and educate people on the atrocities of the Holocaust of World War II. The Museum had a singular mission, “Teaching Tolerance Through Education.”
- Virginia Museum of Transportation: Through this Web site, you can gain access to a calendar of events; information on the automobile and railroad collection; a library and ideas for hosting your next event. This museum is located in Roanoke.
- Virginia War Museum: Over the past 75 years, this Newport News museum has acquired over 60,000 artifacts. The size of the collection is a blessing; however, due to limited display space, only 8-10 percent of the museum’s collection can be displayed at any given time.
- Virtual Jamestown: The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and “the Virginia experiment.” As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
- Virginia Center for Digital History: VCDH is an independent center within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. Their digital collections constitute widely accessible, scholarly versions of primary historical sources that otherwise would remain inaccessible and largely unknown to the public.
