https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/racial-integrity-laws-1924-1930/
Feb 18, 2025 - Background Virginian Luxuries. White Virginians had long been concerned with carefully defining the legal rights of different races. Interracial relationships...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/james-vi-and-i-1566-1625/
Aug 26, 2024 - Early Years The birth of James Stuart at Edinburgh Castle on June 19, 1566, came at a tumultuous time in Scotland’s history. His Catholic mother, Mary,...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jeffersons-mound-archaeological-site/
Feb 13, 2025 - Site Description Jefferson’s Mound is a manmade formation consisting of raised earth and stones. Such mounds occur throughout the world; in Europe,...
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https://alchetron.com/Virginia-Sports-Hall-of-Fame-and-Museum
The Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a sports hall of fame located in Portsmouth, Virginia. Founded in 1972, it moved to its current location in...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/powhatan-d-1618/
Feb 13, 2025 - Early Years Powhatan was born Wahunsonacock and came to power in the town of Powhatan, a settlement located on the north bank of the James River just below the...
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https://alchetron.com/Virginia-Beach%2C-Virginia
Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 437,994. In...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/mattaponi-tribe/
Feb 13, 2025 - In 1607, when English colonists established the settlement at Jamestown, the Mattaponi Indians lived in towns and villages on the middle stretches of the...
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https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19295/colonel-george-washington-in-the-uniform-of-the-vi/
Colonel George Washington in the uniform of the Virginia Regiment, oil on canvas portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1772. Washington and Lee University.
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/rappahannock-tribe/
Feb 13, 2025 - The Rappahannock probably first encountered the English in 1603, when an English captain, likely Samuel Mace, sailed up the Rappahannock River and was...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/languages-and-interpreters-in-early-virginia-indian-society/
Feb 13, 2025 - Classifications Most early Virginia Indians spoke some form of Algic, Iroquoian, or Siouan. Although each is a distinctly different language—as different...
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https://news.vcu.edu/article/2025/09/andrew-chesnut-selected-as-co-editor-of-religion-encyclopedia
The VCU professor and Catholicism scholar will shape the second edition of the ‘Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions.’
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jamestown-settlement-early/
Feb 13, 2025 - Background Richard Hakluyt (the Younger) The Virginia colony began not at Jamestown but farther south, on Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of present-day...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/patawomeck-tribe/
Feb 13, 2025 - Tsenacomoco and Jamestown Map of Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom Archaeological work conducted in 1996–1997 determined that a Patawomeck settlement on Potomac...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/massive-resistance/
Feb 18, 2025 - The Origins of Massive Resistance At the midpoint of the twentieth century, Virginia maintained a legally sanctioned racial caste system. Its premise was that...
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https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/virginia-gardner-8802/
Virginia Gardner was a journalist and left-wing activist. At one time a member of the Communist Party, she was also the author of a well-received ...
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https://alchetron.com/Republican-Party-of-Virginia
The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) is the Virginia chapter of the Republican Party. It is based in the Richard D. Obenshain Center in Richmond in the...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-great-dismal-swamp/
Feb 6, 2025 - Geologic History According to oral tradition, the lake at the center of the Dismal Swamp was formed 4,000 years ago when a great firebird descended on an...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/chickahominy-tribe/
Feb 13, 2025 - In 1607, when English colonists established the settlement at Jamestown, the Chickahominy Indians lived in towns and villages along the , from the fall line of...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jackson-thomas-j-stonewall-1824-1863/
Feb 18, 2025 - Early Years Painting of Stonewall Jackson Thomas Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), the son of Jonathan...
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/ohio-company-virginia
OHIO COMPANY OF VIRGINIAOHIO COMPANY OF VIRGINIA, a partnership of Virginia gentlemen, a Maryland frontiersman, and a London merchant organized in 1747 to...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/upper-mattaponi-tribe/
Feb 13, 2025 - Indian Town of Passaunkack Although the Upper Mattaponi tribe was not known by that name until 1921, its members are descended from a group of Indians who...
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57050425
online scholarly reference work for general audiences on the history and culture of Virginia, United States
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/opechancanough-d-1646/
Aug 26, 2024 - Early Years Powhatan Opechancanough’s birth date is unknown, although one writer, in 1649, estimated that he was nearly 100 years old in 1644. That...
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https://alchetron.com/Virginia-and-Truckee-Railroad
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad is a privately owned heritage railroad, headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada in the United States. Its route is 14.1 miles...
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https://alchetron.com/Virginia-City,-Nevada
Virginia City is a censusdesignated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada. It is part of the RenoSparks Metropolitan Statistical Area....
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/monacan-indian-nation/
Feb 13, 2025 - Scholars believe that thousands of years ago, in the Ohio River Valley, the Siouan-speaking people lived as a unified group, and that eventually the tribes...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/marriage-in-early-virginia-indian-society/
Feb 13, 2025 - Courtship and Marriage Ceremony Fictiliuvaforu in quibus cibucoquunt (The Beauty of the Earthenware Vessels in Which They Cook Food) The Powhatan Indians of...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/personal-names-by-early-virginia-indians-uses-of/
Feb 13, 2025 - William Strachey, an Englishman who lived at Jamestown from 1610 until 1611, recorded the naming practices of Algonquian-speaking Powhatans; the practices of...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/an-act-concerning-the-building-of-a-ffort-october-1665/
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/articles-of-peace-1677/
Jun 11, 2024 - Articles of Peace (1677) Articles of Peace (1677), Page 3 Articles of Peace between the most Mighty Prince, and our Dread Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second, by...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/an-act-concerning-indians-october-1665/
Dec 7, 2020 - Hening’s Statutes at Large, Volume 2, Page 218 WHEREAS at a grand assembly held at James Citty, September 10th 1663, it was provided that where any...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/chauco-fl-1622-1623/
Dec 22, 2021 - All surviving contemporaneous sources report that several Indians alerted colonists to the imminent danger in 1622, but surviving documents from that year do...
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/woolf-virginia-further-reading
VIRGINIA WOOLF: FURTHER READINGBibliographiesKirkpatrick, B. J. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, 4th Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, 472 p.Updates the...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/pamunkey-tribe/
Nov 19, 2025 - Some scholars believe that the Pamunkey have occupied their tribal area for 10,000 to 12,000 years. By 1607, when the first English settlers founded Jamestown,...
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hariot-thomas-ca-1560-1621/
Aug 26, 2024 - Oxford and Durham House Hariot enters the historical record with his matriculation at Oxford in 1577 at the age of seventeen. His tentative date of birth is...
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/first-virginia-banks-inc
First Virginia Banks, Inc. 6400 Arlington BoulevardFalls Church, Virginia 22042-2336U.S.A.(703) 241-4000Fax: (703) 241-3090 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1949 as...
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/virginia-military-operations
Virginia, Military Operations inVIRGINIA, MILITARY OPERATIONS IN. Like Massachusetts, Virginia's Whigs took steps to prepare for possible armed conflict before...
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https://alchetron.com/Virginia-Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici (born 31 January 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She won the 1978 French Open singles championship. Ruzici became a...
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