A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves. Some of ...

these books provide an in depth look at the Civil War action, military events, photographs, maps and literally a day-by-day diary of the events as they unfolded in Fairfax County. Wenzel will ...

There are a number of projects in the works in that area currently, County Administrator Sam McLearen told the committee. State code allows regulatory flexibility in tech zones, he said. The county ...

BLOOMINGTON — An effort to get McLean County voters' approval for a publicly funded Civil War memorial failed after county board members declined to certify a question proposed for the November ...

For insight into that decision, we have to trace the county, state, and country's turbulent history back through time, from the Civil War through the Civil Rights ... Virginia and the other southern ...

“Unlike the popular perception, the county - and indeed the country – remained divided after the English Civil War ended and this map powerfully illustrates that,” said Dr Colin Phillips who is an ...

As many as 100,000 black people toiled in bondage on plantations in Wake County and Raleigh before the Civil War. But most of their ... in 1890 to this early map which lists Raleigh's original ...

The family of civil rights activist Lillian S. Blackwell was joined by Representative Gerry Connolly and others at the unveiling of a historic marker in her honor in Fairfax County, Virginia ...

Virginia’s largest school system, Fairfax County Public Schools ... chief of the Ku Klux Klan and the commander whose troops fired the first shots of the Civil War, reported Time. At least 200 ...

The Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County argued in opposition, claiming that the exclusionary rule cannot be applied to civil cases. Attorneys at the Institute for Justice drafted an amicus brief ...