ResearchBuzz: FirehoseEpiscopal News Service: Virginia Humanities awards grant to digitize colonial era vestry books. “The project, entitled Laying the Leavy & Keeping the Poor: Lynnhaven & Elizabeth City Parish Records, 1723-1831, will digitize and make public the content of vestry books of two parishes in Virginia’s Tidewater: Lynnhaven Parish (established pre-1643) and Elizabeth City Parish (established […]
WHSV: “It’s so many of us, but we don’t know where we are buried,’ Organization creates database for unmarked and missing African American graves. “Generations of African Americans are buried across the Shenandoah Valley, but many of their final resting places remain unmarked or undocumented. In response, the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project is launching a public database to […]
Fold3: New Virginia Military Record Collection!. “We are pleased to announce a new collection of Virginia military records. The Virginia Department of Military Affairs Records Collection contains information on Virginia military personnel who served between 1876 and 1947. This collection includes veterans from the Spanish-American War, WWI, and WWII.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/23/fold3-new-virginia-military-record-collection/
Rob MonroeThe oldest known surviving #tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of black limestone initially laid in the floor of the second church of #Jamestown, #Virginia, the first permanent British settlement in North America. #history #VirginiaHistory https://cnn.it/3YLQDbZ
Long-hidden family scandal in Jamestown colony revealed 400 years later by ancient DNA
#historians #history #Jamestown #VirginiaHistory #Virginia
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/science/jamestown-colonial-governor-family-scandal-dna/index.html
Norma BrandsbergMabry Mill in spring with a textured editing here:
https://pixels.com/featured/spring-on-the-blue-ridge-parkway-1-norma-brandsberg.html
#mabrymill #blueridgeparkway #blueridgemountains #oldmills #virginiamills #gristmills #historicbuildings #virginiahistory #landscapephotography #art4mom #travelphotography #nature #artforsale #Travel
kilombavitahttps://archive.org/details/culpeper-wills-1791-1803
Culpeper County, Virginia Will Abstracts 1791-1803 by Ruth Sparacio; Sam Sparacio
Topics
#culpepercounty, #virginia, #culpeper, #wills, #propertyrecords, #propertyownership, #wealthtransfers, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #virginiahistory, #historyofvirginia, #genocide, #divorce, #courtrecords, #19thcentury, #unitedstatesofamerika, #capitalaccumulation, #capitalism, #nuclearfamily, #inheritance, #inheritances, #slaveowners, #slaveholders, #enslavers
This Antient Press publication contains entries from Culpeper County Will Book D, September 19, 1791 through April 19, 1803.
Road Not Taken#KittyCary was born and died #enslaved. One of her #descendants has been trying to find her #burialPlace - and may be very, very close.
#Richmond #RichmondVA #Virginia #VirginiaHistory #Shockoe #ShockoeHill #AfricanBurialGround
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/27/richmond-shockoe-african-burying-ground/
#BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #enslaved #slaveHistory #burials #BlackCemetery #BlackCemeteries #AfricanAmericanCemetery #AfricanAmericanCemeteries
#AfricanAmericanBurials #BurialsOfTheEnslaved #raceRelations
GruntyGinManThe Woodrow Wilson library's layout is somewhat dated, although I recognize that some of the limitations are from keeping it in historical buildings.
Exhibits on Wilson's dismal record on civil liberties are lacking, one placard on segregating the federal government and one placard on the first red scare, no mention of mass imprisonment for those who opposed WW1.
#publichistory helps us understand our heritage, sadly, the museum is kind of weak at it. #virginiahistory #virginia
This is an excellent (and truly sad) story by @ProRepublica. Multiple people and institutions are to blame. We MUST do better. #Virginia #VirginiaHistory #genealogy
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Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery. -- The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a #Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state #regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites. “This is not as bad as it sounds,” a consultant wrote in2014 to Microsoft & to a county official. “We should be able to relocate these graves.” https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia