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Please help improve this article. The discussion page may contain suggestions. | The recorded History of Virginia began with settlement of the geographic region now known as the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States thousands of years ago by Native Americans. European settlement did not occur until the establishment of Jamestown in 1607, by English colonists. As tobacco emerged as a profitable export, Virginia imported more Africans to cultivate it and hardened boundaries of slavery. The Virginia Colony became one of the wealthiest and most populated British colonies in North America. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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The 1609 charter for the Virginia colony from sea to sea The Virginia Colony refers to the English colony in North America that existed during the 17th and 18th centuries before the American Revolution. ...
Virginia was one of the original 13 United States that won independence from Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. The state produced more national leaders than any other, who included four of the first five presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. This article is about military actions only. ...
When the issue of slavery divided the young nation, the slave state Virginia was reluctant to secede in 1861. After it did, Virginia became the major battlefield of the American Civil War. Virginia shared agricultural recession with other Southern states after the war and struggled to rebuild. As in other former Confederate states, when white Democrats regained power, they passed laws to segregate public facilities and a constitution to disfranchise blacks by the turn of the century. The long struggle by African Americans to regain protected rights through education, litigation and non-violent activism, lasted deep into the 1960s before they gained civil rights legislation that protected all citizens. Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1870 in response to the American Civil War, prevented any state from denying the right to vote to any citizen on account of his race. ...
The economic stimulus of WWII brought new prosperity to the state. World War II gave the state a major naval and industrial economic base, and the growth of government jobs in Northern Virginia. By the 1980s, Northern Virginia (NoVA)and the Hampton Roads region had achieved the greatest growth and prosperity, chiefly because of employment related to Federal government agencies and defense, as well as an increase in technology in NoVA. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Map of Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. ...
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Because of disfranchisement of blacks, politically the state was a stronghold of white Democrats for most of the 20th century. After the Civil Rights Movement gained the Voting Rights Act under President Lyndon Johnson, African Americans re-entered political life, and many aligned with the national Democratic Party. Many white southern conservatives then switched to the Republican Party, first for presidential elections and also for local and state elections. Historically, the civil rights movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately one generation (1960-1980) wherein there was much worldwide civil unrest and popular rebellion. ...
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The year 2007 marks the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown. An 18 month-long celebration called Jamestown 2007 began in 2006. Events celebrated the Native American, European and African contributions to the history of Virginia. A state visit from Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and her consort, Prince Phillip, reprised the honor they paid Virginia in 1957 for the 350th anniversary. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
The Virginia state quarter commerates Jamestons quadricentennial. ...
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Native Americans
 Virginia Indian chief in engraving after John White watercolor The portion of the New World designated Virginia had been inhabited for at least 3,000 years by many groups of Native Americans. Archaeological and historical research by anthropologist Helen Rountree and others established this. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x630, 195 KB) Summary Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1590 after a John White watercolor, 1585. ...
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At the end of the 16th century, Native Americans living in what is now Virginia included the Cherokee, Chesepian, Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Meherrin, Monacan, Nansemond,Nottoway, Pamunkey, Pohick, Powhatan, Rappahannock, Saponi, and Tuscarora. The natives are divided into three groups, based chiefly on language differences. The largest group, known as the Algonquian, numbered over 10,000. The other groups are the Iroquoian (numbering 2,500) and the Siouan. [1] This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ...
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Chesepian were Native American (American Indian) inhabitants of the area now know as South Hampton Roads in Virginia during the Woodland Period and later prior to the arrival of the English settlers in 1607. ...
The Chickahominy are a tribe of Native Americans who primarily live in Charles City and New Kent counties in the Greater Richmond-Petersburg area in the U.S. state of Virginia. ...
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The Meherrin Tribe is one of eight state-recognized tribes of Native Americans in North Carolina and received formal state recognition in 1986. ...
The Monacan are an Indian tribe in Virginia, located in Amherst County, Virginia near Lynchburg, Virginia. ...
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The Pamunkey Native American tribe has been in existence since pre-Columbian times. ...
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Rappahannock may mean: Rappahannock County, a county located in Virginia Rappahannock River, a river in eastern Virginia Rappahannock_tribe, a Native American tribe CSS Rappahannock, a Confederate Army ship T-AO 204 Rappahannock, a US Navy Sealift Command ship Rappahannock Condominimums, a notable building in the Elliot Park neighborhood of Minneapolis...
Saponi is the name of one of the eastern Siouan tribes, related to the Tutelo, Occaneechi, Monacan and other eastern Siouan peoples, whose original homeland is in North Carolina and Virginia. ...
The Tuscarora are an American Indian tribe originally in North Carolina, which moved north to New York, and then partially into Canada. ...
The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (others are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). ...
The Iroquoian languages are a Native American language family. ...
Siouan is a family of related Native American languages in North America. ...
When the first English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, Algonquian tribes controlled most of Virginia east of the fall line. Nearly all were united in what has been historically called the Powhatan Confederacy. Researcher Rountree has noted that empire more accurately describes their political structure. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a Chief named Wahunsunacock created this powerful empire by conquering or affiliating with approximately 30 tribes whose territories covered much of eastern Virginia. Wahunsunacock called this area Tenakomakah ("densely inhabited Land").[2] He was known as Chief Powhatan. The empire was advantageous to some tribes, who were periodically threatened by other Native Americans, such as the Monacans. The fall line has meanings in both geographical features and the sport of alpine skiing. ...
The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) were a very powerful tribe of Native Americans, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first European-Native encounters. ...
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The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) were a very powerful confederacy of Native American tribes, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first English-Native encounters. ...
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The Native Americans had a different culture than the English. Despite some successful interaction, ownership and control of land, and trust between them became major issues of conflict. Virginia has drought conditions an average of every three years. The colonists did not understand that the natives were ill-prepared to feed them during hard times. In the years after 1612, the colonists cleared land to farm export tobacco, their crucial cash crop. As the land became fallow after only a few seasons of growing the nutrient-hungry tobacco crops, replacement farming land was continually needed. This reduced wooded land which could be used by Native Americans for hunting to supplement their food crops. As more colonists arrived, they wanted more land. Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking Tobacco can also be pressed into plugs and sliced into flakes Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. ...
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The tribes tried to fight the encroachment by the colonists. Major conflicts took place with the Indian massacre of 1622 and another in 1644, both under the leadership of the late Chief Powhatan's younger brother, Chief Opechancanough. By the mid-17th century, the Powhatans were in serious decline. The European colonists had expanded so that they controlled virtually all the land east of the fall line. Fifty years earlier, this territory had been the empire of the mighty Powhatan Confederacy. Indian massacre of 1622, depicted as a woodcut by Theodore de Bry The Indian massacre of 1622 (also known as the Jamestown massacre) occurred in the Virginia Colony on March 22, 1622. ...
Opechancanough or Opchanacanough was a chief of the Powhatan tribe, becoming chief after his older brother, Wahunsonacock, died. ...
Members of many tribes assimilated into the general population of the colony. Some retained their identity and heritage. In the 21st century, the Pamunkey and Mattaponi maintain reservations in King William County. There are active groups of other tribes which have preserved portions of the heritage. Their interest in seeking recognition was heightened by the 400th anniversary of Jamestown in 2007. State celebrations gave Native American tribes prominent formal roles to celebrate their contributions to the state. King William County is a county located on the Middle Peninsula in the state of Virginia. ...
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 Map of Virginia published by John Smith(1612) After their discovery of the New World in the 15th century, European states began trying to establish New World colonies. England, the Dutch Republic, France, Portugal, and Spain were the most active. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2520x1944, 1047 KB) Summary John Smiths Map of Virginia used in various publications, first in 1612. ...
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When England began to colonize North America, "Virginia" was the name Queen Elizabeth I of England (who was known as the "Virgin Queen" because she never married) gave to the whole area explored by the 1584 expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh along the coast of North America. The name was applied to the coast from South Carolina to Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
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In the much smaller area now known as Virginia, the Spanish were the first to attempt to establish a colony, although they failed. More than 36 years later, the English established their first permanent settlement in the same area, at a swampy mosquito-infested island they named "Jamestown" in honor of their King, James I of England. James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scots as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary...
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Spanish Mission on the Virginia Peninsula A Spanish exploration party had come to the lower Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia about 1560 and met the Native Americans living on the Virginia Peninsula. A 17-year-old Powhatan boy from the village of Chiskiack (located on the lands of the present-day U.S. Naval Weapons Station Yorktown), who was the son of a chief, agreed to leave with them. He was baptized and renamed Don Luis, in honor of his sponsor, Luis de Velasco. Don Luis was educated in Mexico and Madrid, Spain. The Chesapeake Bay - Landsat photo The Chesapeake Bay where the Susquehanna River empties into it. ...
Chief Quanah Parker of the Quahadi Comanche Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory which is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in...
The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. ...
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Kiskiack (or Chisiack or Chiskiack) was a Native American tribal group of the Powhatan Confederacy and was also the name of their village site now located in York County, Virginia. ...
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In the fall of 1570, ten years later, the native-convert Don Luis returned to Virginia to help as a guide and translator in the establishment of the Jesuit's planned Ajacan Mission to be named for St. Mary on the lower peninsula. Shortly after they were left by a Spanish ship, Don Luis abandoned the group, returning to his people, where he became a Weroance. The following February, Don Luis and a group of Powhatans returned and killed the 8 Jesuit missionaries, stealing their clothes and possessions, sparing only the life of a Spanish servant boy named Alonzo. This young boy escaped and made his way to a rival tribe, where he stayed until later rescued by another Spanish ship bringing supplies. [3] The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ...
The Ajacan Mission was a failed attempt in the 16th century by Spanish Jesuit priests to settle and bring Christianize the Native Americans on the Virginia Peninsula in the New World. ...
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A weroance is a tribal chief, leader, commander, or king, notably among the Powhatan confederacy of the Virginia coast and Chesapeake Bay region. ...
When told of the events by young Alonzo, in the early part of 1572, the Spanish governor of Florida, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, returned to Virginia to retaliate. The Spanish ultimately captured and hanged some of the Indians believed responsible for the massacre, but they were unable to locate Don Luis. While this marked the end of Spanish efforts to colonize the area which became Virginia, there is some speculation over 400 years later that Don Luis and Opechancanough, who was later Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy, may have been the same individual. [4] The name Opechancanough meant "He whose Soul is White" in the Algonquin language used by the Powhatan people. Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles Pedro Menendez de Aviles (born 1519 in Avilés, Spain, dead in Santander on September 17, 1574), was the first Spanish governor of Florida. ...
Opechancanough or Opchanacanough was a chief of the Powhatan tribe, becoming chief after his older brother, Wahunsonacock, died. ...
The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) were a very powerful tribe of Native Americans, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first European-Native encounters. ...
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Roanoke Island: The Lost Colony The Roanoke Colony was the first English colony in the New World. It was founded at Roanoke Island in what was then Virginia, and is now part of Dare County in the state of North Carolina. Lost Colony redirects here. ...
British colonization of the Americas (including colonization under the Kingdom of England before the 1707 Acts of Union created the Kingdom of Great Britain) began in the late 16th century, before reaching its peak after colonies were established throughout the Americas, and a protectorate was established in Hawaii. ...
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, Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County near the coast of North Carolina, United States. ...
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Between 1584 and 1587, there were two major groups of settlers sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh who attempted to establish a permanent settlement at Roanoke Island, and each failed. The final group disappeared completely after supplies from England were delayed three years by a war with Spain. Their disappearance and the fact that their fate has never been authoritatively ascertained is the source of the continuing mystery of what came to be called "The Lost Colony". This article is about the sixteenth-century explorer. ...
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Virginia Company: Plymouth and London Branches
 Sketch of Jamestown c.1608 After the death of Queen Elizabeth I, in 1603 King James I assumed the throne of England. After years of war, England was strapped for funds, so he granted responsibility for England's New World colonization to the Virginia Company, which became incorporated as a joint stock company by a proprietary charter drawn up on April 10, 1606. There were two competing branches of the Virginia Company and each hoped to establish a colony in Virginia in order to exploit gold (which the region did not actually have), to establish a base of support for English privateering against Spanish ships, and to spread Protestantism to the New World in competition with Spain's spread of Catholicism.[5] Image File history File links Sketch of the Jamestown fort sent to King Philip III of Spain by his ambassador Zuniga. ...
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Within the Virginia Company, the Plymouth Company branch was assigned a northern portion of the area known as Virginia, and the London Company area to the south. An overlapping portion in between was part of the competition. The 1606 grants by James I to the London and Plymouth companies. ...
Virginia Company of London Seal The London Company (also called the Charter of the Virginia Company of London) was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by James I on April 10, 1606 with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. ...
In the late summer of 1607, the Plymouth Company established their Popham Colony in what is now the U.S. state of Maine. However, it only lasted a year, and was abandoned in 1608. The site of the 1607 Popham Colony in present-day Maine is shown by Po on the map. ...
Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area Ranked 39th - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²) - Width 210 miles (338 km) - Length 320 miles (515 km) - % water 13. ...
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By the time a successor to the Plymouth Company sent Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower to establish a permanent settlement in what became Massachusetts in 1620, the area was no longer considered part of Virginia, but had been renamed New England. However, 12 years before then, the competing London Company branch of the Virginia Company was more successful in establishing a permanent settlement at Jamestown. The site of the 1607 Popham Colony in present-day Maine is shown by Po on the map. ...
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First landing: April 1607 In December, 1606, the London Company dispatched a group of 104 colonists in three ships: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, under the command of Captain Christopher Newport. The voyage was a rough and lengthy one. After 144 days, the colonists finally arrived in Virginia on April 26, 1607 at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. They named the Virginia capes after the sons of their king, Cape Henry for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Cape Charles for his younger brother, Charles, Duke of York. At Cape Henry, they went ashore, erected a cross, and did a small amount of exploring, an event which came to be called the "First Landing." Susan Constant was the largest of three ships of the English East India Company led by Captain Christopher Newport on the voyage which resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia in 1607. ...
Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company led by Captain Christopher Newport on the voyage which resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia in 1607. ...
Discovery was a 70-ton fly-boat of the English East India Company, launched before 1602. ...
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Cape Henry is a cape on the Atlantic shore of Virginia. ...
Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales (February 19, 1594 - November 6, 1612) was the eldest son of King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Anne of Denmark. ...
Cape Charles is a town located in Northampton County, Virginia. ...
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Under orders from London to seek a more inland and ostensibly safer location ( primarily from ships of other Europeans, such as the Spanish), they explored the Hampton Roads area and sailed up the newly christened James River to the fall line at what would later became the cities of Richmond and Manchester. This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...
The James River at Cartersville The James River in the U.S. state of Virginia is 660 km (410 miles) long including its Jackson River source and drains a watershed comprising 27,019 km² (10,432 square miles). ...
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Nickname: Motto: Sic dic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area - City 62. ...
Factories at Manchester, Virginia, looking across James River, circa 1865 Manchester, Virginia was an independent city in Virginia in the United States. ...
Jamestown and Captain John Smith: 1607-1609 After weeks of exploration, the colonists selected a location and founded Jamestown on May 14, 1607. It was named in honor of King James I (as was the river). However, while the location at Jamestown Island was favorable for defense against foreign ships, the low and marshy terrain was harsh and inhospitable for a settlement. It lacked drinking water, access to game for hunting, or much space for farming. While it seemed favorable that it was not inhabited by the Native Americans, within a short time, the colonists were attacked by members of the local Paspahegh tribe. At Jamestown Settlement, replicas of Christopher Newports 3 ships are docked in the harbour. ...
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The colonists arrived ill-prepared to become self-sufficient. They had planned on trading with the Native Americans for food, were dependent upon periodic supplies from England, and had planned to spend some of their time seeking gold. Leaving the Discovery behind for their use, Captain Newport returned to England with the Susan Constant and the Godspeed, and came back twice during 1608 with the First Supply and Second Supply missions. Trading and relations with the Native Americans was tenuous at best, and many of the colonists died from disease, starvation, and conflicts with the Natives. After several failed leaders, Captain John Smith took charge of the settlement, and many credit him with sustaining the colony during its first years, as he had some success in trading for food and leading the discouraged colonists. Statue at Jamestown VA, photo Aug 2007 Captain/Sir John Smith (1580–June 21, 1631), was an English soldier, sailor, and author. ...
However, in August 1609, Smith was injured in an accident and forced to return to England a few months later for medical treatment. In one of history's ironies, he left just as a drought was creating a shortage of food for the Native Americans and the English colonists, and as a weather disaster had disrupted the supply missions from England.
1609-1610: the "Starving Time" After Smith's departure, there was an interruption in the scheduled arrival of supplies due to the shipwreck on Bermuda of the Sea Venture, the new flagship of the Third Supply mission from England as a result of a massive 3-day hurricane. The Sea Venture had became separated from the other ships of the Third Supply mission, 7 of which had arrived at Jamestown with hundreds of additional colonists, but little in the way of food and supplies, which had been aboard the flagship. The coat of arms of Bermuda features a representation of the wreck of the Sea Venture The Sea Venture was a 17th-century English sailing ship, the wrecking of which in Bermuda is widely thought to have been the inspiration for Shakespeares The Tempest. ...
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The Third Supply was the first truly successful wave of colonization, in the first British settlement in the Americas; Jamestown, Virginia. ...
During the winter of 1609-10 and continuing into the spring and early summer, no more ships arrived. The colonists faced what became known as the "starving time". The leader who had replaced John Smith, Captain John Ratcliffe of the Discovery, was captured and killed by the Powhatans, who were much more aggressive after Smith's departure. Only a small amount of food was traded, and at very high prices, as the colonists gave up valuable tools and equipment. The colonists had no way of knowing if help would ever come. However, they had not been forgotten, and separate events were underway at Bermuda and in England to re-supply them. The Starving Time at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony occurred during the winter of 1609–10. ...
John Ratcliffe (died September 1609) was captain of the Discovery, one of three boats that sailed from England on December 19, 1606 to Virginia, to found a colony, arriving May 14, 1607. ...
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Shipwrecked on the uninhabited archipelago of Bermuda, over a period of 10 months, the leaders of the Third Supply and the survivors of the Sea Venture constructed two smaller ships, using many parts from their destroyed flagship. Leaving a few men on Bermuda to retain possession, they set sail again for Jamestown. (The Virginia Company remained in physical possession of Bermuda from the time of the Sea Venture wreck, and its Third Charter, in 1612, extended the boundaries of Virginia far enough out to sea to include Bermuda, also known as the Somers Isles. A separate company, the Somers Isles Company, was formed by the same shareholders in 1615, administering Bermuda until 1684). The Somers Isles Company was formed in 1615 to operate the English colony of the Somers Isles, alias the Islands of Bermuda, as a commercial venture. ...
When Captain Newport, his Admiral, Sir George Somers, and the new governor, Sir Thomas Gates, finally arrived at Jamestown on May 23, 1610, they anticipated finding a thriving colony. Instead, they discovered something much different. Over 80% of the 500 colonists had perished, and many remaining alive were sick. On their two small ships, the Sea Venture survivors had brought few supplies from Bermuda. The stark reality was that the situation was only slightly improved at Jamestown with their arrival. It appeared that using the two ships to leave the hostile environment was the only viable option, one which the leaders were reluctant to embrace. Finally, they began to sail down the James River. Admiral Sir George Somers (1554-1610) was a British naval hero. ...
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Meanwhile, back in England, the Virginia Company had been reorganized under its Second Charter, ratified on May 23, 1609, which gave most leadership authority of the colony to the governor, the newly-appointed Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (known in modern times as "Lord Delaware"). Word had reached England through Samuel Argall, captain of one of the other ships of the Third Supply, that the Sea Venture (with most of the supplies of that mission) had not arrived at Jamestown, and that food and supplies there were quite low, despite an increased number of colonists. is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
// Events April 4 – King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia. ...
Thomas West, 3rd (or 12th) Baron De La Warr (July 9, 1577 - June 7, 1618), was the Englishman for whom the state, river, and American Indian tribe called Delaware (in the United States) were named. ...
Sir Samuel Argall (1572? - 1626?) was an English adventurer and naval officer. ...
Saving Jamestown: Lord Delaware and John Rolfe On April 1, 1610, De La Warr left for Jamestown with 150 men and additional food and supplies to rescue to colonists and assume leadership over the colony. Upon his arrival in June, as he sailed up the James River, he was met by two ships sailing downriver near Mulberry Island. There is little doubt that he was as surprised to learn of the fate of the Sea Venture and that its survivors had made it to Jamestown as they were to see English ships arriving. is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Mulberry Island is located along the James River in southeastern Virginia at the confluence of the Warwick River on the Virginia Peninsula. ...
Lord Delaware was likely less surprised to find them all preparing to abandon the colony. Instead, he required them to stay in Virginia and work with his fresh colonists and supplies to continue the settlement. The timing of Lord Delaware's arrival must have been a disappointment to those who hoped to leave Jamestown forever. However, neither they, nor Lord Delaware, could have known that the man who held the key to Virginia's economic future was also returning to Jamestown with them.
One of the Sea Venture survivors was a businessman named John Rolfe. Despite leaving England with great expectations aboard the beautiful new Sea Venture, his trip thus far with Captain Newport had not gone well at all. His wife and son had died on the voyage since leaving London. He himself had finally made it to Jamestown, only to discover the result of the "Starving Time." Although he had some marketing ideas and some new seeds for sweeter strains of tobacco with him, both were as yet untried. That was about to change. This article is about the Virginia colonist. ...
Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking Tobacco can also be pressed into plugs and sliced into flakes Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. ...
As he became established, De La Warr began a violent campaign, First Anglo-Powhatan War, against the natives. Under his leadership, Samuel Argall kidnapped Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhatan chief, and hold her at Henricus. Attempts at ransom failed, however. The War between 1609 - 1613 the English and Indians in Jamestown was called the First Anglo-Powhatan War. ...
Sir Samuel Argall (1572? - 1626?) was an English adventurer and naval officer. ...
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The Citie of Henricus was a city founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy and dangerous area around Jamestown Settlement, Virginia. ...
The economy of the Colony was another problem. Gold had never been found, and efforts to introduce profitable industries in the colony had all failed until Rolfe introduced his two foreign types of tobacco: Orinoco and Sweet Scented. These produced a better crop than the local variety and with the first shipment to England in 1612, the customers found the flavor to be favorable. This identification of a cash crop to export marked the beginning of Virginia's economic viability. Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking Tobacco can also be pressed into plugs and sliced into flakes Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. ...
In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money. ...
While ransoming the chief's daughter had not worked, the First Anglo-Powhatan War ended when John Rolfe married Pocahontas in 1614. The union seemed to create good feelings between the vastly different cultures. If only for a few years, a comparative peace was established. Their son, Thomas Rolfe, was born in 1615. Thomas Rolfe (January 30, 1615 - c. ...
 "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles", by Capt. John Smith The Virginia Colony began to prosper with a thriving tobacco industry, but required more and more of the land the natives considered their own. Especially after the death of Pocahontas in 1617 during a trip to England and her father, Chief Powhatan in 1618, conflicts with the Powhatans escalated again. There were also conflicts among the colonists. De La Warr's deputy, Samuel Argall, who had been left in charge of the colony, ran Jamestown as an autocrat. Responding to accusations of Argall's abuses, De La Warr left to return to the colony in 1618 but died en route. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (651x992, 580 KB) Summary Cover of The Generall Historie of Virginia, New=England, and the Summer Isles (The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Somers Isles), by Captain John Smith, 1624. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (651x992, 580 KB) Summary Cover of The Generall Historie of Virginia, New=England, and the Summer Isles (The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Somers Isles), by Captain John Smith, 1624. ...
Statue at Jamestown VA, photo Aug 2007 Captain/Sir John Smith (1580–June 21, 1631), was an English soldier, sailor, and author. ...
1619: a watershed year 1619 was a watershed year for the Virginia Company. George Yeardley took over as Governor of Virginia in 1619. In the long view, the most important development was that he reformed the old autocratic system and created a more democratic one. He established the House of Burgesses, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World, which first met on July 30, 1619 in the Jamestown church (the current House of Delegates in the Virginia General Assembly traces its roots to the Burgesses). Early Life and Military Career Sir George Yeardley was baptized 28 July 1588 in St. ...
Tim Kaine, the current Governor The Governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term. ...
Patrick Henry before the House of Burgesses in an 1851 painting by Peter F. The House of Burgesses was the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. ...
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Events May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. ...
The House of Delegates is the name given to the lower house of the legislature in three U.S. states – Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. ...
The Virginia General Assembly is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. ...
Also in 1619, the Virginia Company sent 90 single women as potential wives for the male colonists to help populate the settlement. Prior to that time, the only females to arrive had been wives and children.
That same year the colony acquired a group of "twenty and odd" Angolans, brought by two English privateers. They were probably the first Africans in the colony. They, along with many European indentured servants helped to expand the growing tobacco industry which was already the colony's primary product. Although these black men were treated as indentured servants, this marked the beginning of America's history of slavery. Major importation of African slaves by both African and Europeans profiteers did not take place until much later in the century. An indentured servant (also called a bonded laborer) is a labourer unde from the employer in exchange for an extension to the period of their indenture, which could thereby continue indefinitely. ...
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Also in 1619, the plantations and developments were divided into four "incorporations" or "citties" (sic), as they were called. These were Charles Cittie, Elizabeth Cittie, Henrico Cittie, and James Cittie, which included the relatively small seat of government for the colony at Jamestown Island. Each of the four "citties" (sic) extended across the James River, the main conduit of transportation of the era. Elizabeth Cittie, know initially as Kecoughtan (a Native word with many variations in spelling by the English), also included the areas now known as South Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore. Charles City (or citiie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company. ...
Elizabeth City (or citiie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company. ...
Henrico City (or citiie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company. ...
James City (or citiie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company. ...
At Jamestown Settlement, replicas of Christopher Newports 3 ships are docked in the harbour. ...
The James River at Cartersville The James River in the U.S. state of Virginia is 660 km (410 miles) long including its Jackson River source and drains a watershed comprising 27,019 km² (10,432 square miles). ...
Kecoughtan in Virginia was originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kecoughtan and Kikowtan), presumably a word for the native americans living there when the English colonists arrived in the Hampton Roads area in 1607. ...
South Hampton Roads is a region located in the extreme southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States. ...
Eastern Shore refers to many places, including: Maryland Eastern Shore Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia) Eastern Shore (electoral district) of Nova Scotia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
In some areas, individual rather than communal land ownership or leaseholds were established, providing families with motivation to increase production, improve standards of living, and gain wealth. Perhaps nowhere was this more progressive at than Sir Thomas Dale's ill-fated Henricus, a westerly-lying development located along the south bank of the James River, where natives were also to be provided an education at the Colony's first college. Sir Thomas Dale (d. ...
The Citie of Henricus was a city founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy and dangerous area around Jamestown Settlement, Virginia. ...
About 6 miles south of the falls at present-day Richmond, in Henrico Cittie the Falling Creek Ironworks was established near the confluence of Falling Creek, using local ore deposits to make iron. It was the first in North America. Extant records indicate the production of iron had begun, but the events of March, 1622 interrupted continued operations. For other uses, see Ore (disambiguation). ...
General Name, symbol, number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, period, block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ...
1622-1646: Fundamental conflict grows: colonists vs. natives While the developments of 1619 and continued growth in the several following years were seen as favorable by the English, many aspects, especially the continued need for more and more land to grow tobacco were the source of increasing concern to the Native Americans most affected, the Powhatans.
The central issue was who would be in charge. The Powhatans formally and ritually admitted Virginia into their political system in 1607 and 1608, and for years under the rule of Chief Powhatan, and even later, they fought to enforce the control they felt was rightfully theirs. The colonists, however, never recognized Powhatan authority, and they also acted to take control.
By this time, the remaining Powhatan Empire was led by Chief Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkeys, and brother of Chief Powhatan. He had earned a reputation as a fierce warrior under his brother's chiefdom. Soon, he gave up on hopes of diplomacy, and resolved to eradicate the English colonists. Opechancanough or Opchanacanough was a chief of the Powhatan tribe, becoming chief after his older brother, Wahunsonacock, died. ...
The Pamunkey Native American tribe has been in existence since pre-Columbian times. ...
On March 22, 1622, a Good Friday, about 400 colonists were killed in an event which came to be called the Indian Massacre of 1622. Coordinated attacks struck almost all the English settlements along the James River, on both shores, from Newport News Point on the east at Hampton Roads all the way west upriver to Falling Creek, a few miles above Henricus and John Rolfe's plantation, Varina Farms. is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Events January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25. ...
Good Friday, also called Holy Friday or Great Friday, is the Friday preceding Easter Sunday. ...
Indian massacre of 1622, depicted as a woodcut by Theodore de Bry The Indian massacre of 1622 (also known as the Jamestown massacre) occurred in the Virginia Colony on March 22, 1622. ...
Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Incorporated 1896 Government - Mayor Joe Frank Area - City 119. ...
This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...
Varina (Va-ry-nah) is a former town and current magisterial district in easternmost portion of Henrico County, Virginia, USA. It was named for Varina Farms, a plantation on the James River about 35 miles upstream from the Jamestown Settlement in the Virginia Colony, and across the river from Sir...
At Jamestown itself, the death and destruction would have been worse had an Indian boy named Chanco not defied orders to kill his employer, Richard Pace, and instead warned him of the attack the night before. Pace secured his plantation, and rowed across the river during the night to alert Jamestown, allowing for some preparation. However, there had been no time to spread the warning to other English outposts. There were deaths and some colonists were captured at almost every outpost. Several entire communities were essentially wiped out, including Henricus and Wolstenholme Towne at Martin's Hundred. At the Falling Creek Ironworks, which had been seen as so promising for the Colony, two women and three children were among the 27 killed, leaving only two colonists alive. The facilities were destroyed. Chanco or Chauco was an American Indian emissary between Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkeys tribe, to and from Jamestown, Virginia. ...
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The Citie of Henricus was a city founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy and dangerous area around Jamestown Settlement, Virginia. ...
Wolstenholme Towne was a fortified settlement in the Virginia Colony with a population of about 40 settlers of the Virginia Company of London which was located about 9 miles downstream from Jamestown. ...
Martins Hundred was an early 17th century plantation located along about ten miles of the north shore of the James River in the Virginia Colony east of Jamestown in present-day James City County, Virginia. ...
However, despite the losses, two thirds of the colonists survived that fateful day. After initially withdrawing to Jamestown, many of them returned to the outlying plantations, although some were abandoned. There were reprisals against the Powhatans by the English as well. The colonists and natives fought for about a year until a truce was struck.
Meeting at Jamestown, a toast of liquor was proposed. However, Dr. John Potts and some of the Jamestown leadership had poisoned the natives' share of the liquor, which killed about 200 of them. Another 50 Indians were killed by hand. John Potts (or Pott) was a physician and Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century. ...
The period between the coups of 1622 and another in 1644 marked a turning point in the relations between the Powhatans and the English, from a situation where both sides felt that they not only could dictate, but were dictating, the terms of the relationship, to the period after 1646, where the colony was clearly in control.
The colonists defined the 1644 coup as an "uprising", but even at that late date, Chief Opechancanough expected the outcome would reflect what he considered the morally correct position that the colonists were violating their pledges to the Powhatans. During the 1644 event, Chief Opechancanough was captured. While imprisoned, he was murdered by one of his guards.
After the death of Opechancanough, and following the repeated colonial attacks in 1644 and 1645, the remaining Powhatan tribes had little alternative but to accede to the demands of the settlers. [6]
Virginia as a royal colony In 1624, the Virginia Company's charter was revoked and the colony transferred to royal authority as a crown colony, but the elected representatives in Jamestown continued to exercise a fair amount of power. Under royal authority, the colony began to expand to the North and West with additional settlements. In 1630, under the governorship of John Harvey, the first settlement on the York River was founded. In 1632, the Virginia legislature voted to build a fort to link Jamestown and the York River settlement of Chiskiack and protect the colony from Indian attacks. This fort would become Middle Plantation and later Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1634, a palisade was built near Middle Plantation. This wall stretched across the peninsula between the York and James rivers and protected the settlements on the eastern side of the lower Peninsula from Indians. The wall also served to contain cattle. A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ...
Sir John Harvey (d. ...
The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately 40 mi (64 km) long, in eastern Virginia in the United States. ...
Kiskiack (or Chisiack or Chiskiack) was a Native American tribal group of the Powhatan Confederacy and was also the name of their village site now located in York County, Virginia. ...
Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Also in 1634, a new system of local government was created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King of England. Eight shires were designated, each with its own local officers. These shires were renamed as counties only a few years later. They were: A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain and Australia. ...
A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ...
Of these, as of 2007, five of the eight original shires of Virginia are considered still extant in essentially their same political form (county), although some boundaries have changed in almost 400 years. Also, including the earlier names of the cities (sic) in their names resulted in the source of some confusion, as that resulted in such seemingly contradictory names as "James City County" and "Charles City County". (Citizens of the now-extinct "Elizabeth City County" voted to be consolidated with the independent city of Hampton in 1952, and also voted to assume the better-known and less cumbersome name). Northampton County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Northampton County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Charles City Shire was formed in 1634 in the Virginia colony. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1619 Seat Charles City Area - Total - Water 529 km² (204 mi²) 56 km² (21 mi²) 10. ...
Charles River Shire was one of eight shires created in colonial Virginia in 1634. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1634 Seat Yorktown Area - Total - Water 558 km² (216 mi²) 285 km² (110 mi²) 50. ...
Elizabeth City Shire was one of eight shires created in colonial Virginia in 1634. ...
Henrico County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Henrico County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
James City Shire was formed in the British colony of Virginia in 1634. ...
James City County, Virginia as shown on 1895 map James City County (formally, the County of James City) is a county located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Warwick River Shire was one of eight shires created in colonial Virginia in 1634. ...
Warroysoyaoke Shire was formed in 1634 in the Virginia colony. ...
Isle of Wight County is a county located in the South Hampton Roads region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Eight Shires of Virginia were formed in 1634 in the Virginia Colony. ...
Elizabeth City County was located at the eastern tip of the Virginia Peninsula. ...
An independent city is a city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity. ...
Motto: Americas First Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: County Independent City Mayor Ross Kearney II Area - City 352. ...
The first significant attempts at exploring the Trans-Allegheny region occurred under the administration of Governor William Berkeley. Efforts to explore farther into Virginia were hampered in 1644 when about 500 colonists were killed in another Indian massacre led, once again, by Opechancanough. Berkeley is credited with efforts to develop others sources of income for the colony besides tobacco such as cultivation of mulberry trees for silkworms and other crops at his large Green Spring Plantation, now a largely unexplored archaeological site maintained by the National Park Service near Jamestown and Williamsburg. For the 15th-century marquess, see Marquess of Berkeley. ...
For other uses, see Mulberry (disambiguation). ...
Binomial name Bombyx mori Linnaeus, 1758 For the band named Silkworm, see Silkworm (band). ...
remains of ancillary structure at Green Spring Plantation site, James City County, Virginia photo by part of Colonial National Historical Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior Green Spring Plantation in James City County about five miles west of Williamsburg, was the 17th century plantation of one of...
The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ...
Most of Virginian colonists were loyal to the English monarchy during the English Civil War, but, in 1652 Oliver Cromwell sent a force to remove and replace Gov. Berkeley with governors loyal to the Commonwealth of England. These governors were moderate Puritans who allowed the local legislature to exercise most controlling authority. For other uses, see English Civil War (disambiguation). ...
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. ...
Motto: PAX QUÆRITUR BELLO (English: Peace is sought through war) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Language(s) English Government Republic Lord Protector - 1649-1658 Oliver Cromwell Legislature Rump Parliament Barebones Parliament History - Declaration of Commonwealth May 19, 1649 - Declaration of Breda April 4, 1660 Area 130,395...
The Puritans were members of a group of radical Protestants which developed in England after the Reformation. ...
 Slaves making tobacco 1670 Many royalists fled to Virginia after their defeat in the English Civil War. Many of them established what would become the most important families in Virginia. After the Restoration, in recognition of Virginia's loyalty to the crown, King Charles II of England bestowed Virginia with the nickname "The Old Dominion", which it still bears today. Tobacco plants From http://www. ...
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Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ...
Berkeley, who remained popular after his first administration, returned to the governorship at the end of Commonwealth rule. However, Berkeley's second administration was characterized with many problems. Disease, hurricanes, Indian hostilities, and economic difficulties all plagued Virginia at this time. Berkeley established autocratic authority over the colony. To protect this power, he refused to have new legislative elections for 14 years in order to protect a House of Burgesses that supported him. He only agreed to new elections when rebellion became a serious threat.
Berkeley finally did face a rebellion in 1676. Indians had begun attacking encroaching settlers as they expanded to the north and west. Serious fighting broke out when settlers responded to violence with a counter-attack against the wrong tribe, which further extended the violence. Berkeley did not assist the settlers in their fight. Many settlers and historians believe Berkeley's refusal to fight the Indians stemmed from his investments in the fur trade. Large scale fighting would have cut off the Indian suppliers Berkeley's investment relied on. Nathaniel Bacon of Henrico organized his own militia of settlers who retaliated against the Indians. Bacon became very popular as the primary opponent of Berkeley, not only on the issue of Indians, but on other issues as well. Berkeley condemned Bacon as a rebel, but pardoned him after Bacon won a seat in the House of Burgesses and accepted it peacefully. After a lack of reform, Bacon rebelled outright, captured Jamestown, and took control of the colony for several months. The incident became known as Bacon's Rebellion. Berkeley returned himself to power with the help of the English militia. Bacon burned Jamestown before abandoning it and continued his rebellion, but died of disease. Berkeley severely crushed the remaining rebels. In response to Berkeley's harsh repression of the rebels, the English government removed him from office. After the burning of Jamestown, the capital was temporarily moved to Middle Plantation, located on the high ground of the Virginia Peninsula equidistant from the James and York Rivers. Nathaniel Bacon, engraving Nathaniel Bacon (c. ...
Henrico County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Bacons Rebellion or the Virginia Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. ...
Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. ...
York River can refer to: The York River in Virginia in the United States. ...
 Drawing of the Wren Building, the College of William and Mary's main building (1702) Following a failure at Henricus earlier in the century, under Governor Francis Nicholson, Virginia's first permanent institute of higher learning was founded. In 1691, with urging and support of the House of Burgesses, Reverend Dr. James Blair, the colony's top religious leader, went back to England and in 1693, obtained a charter from King William and Queen Mary II of England. The college was named the College of William and Mary in honor of the two monarchs. Image File history File links Wren_william_mary_michel. ...
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The Wren Building is a highly notable building on the campus of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
The Citie of Henricus was a city founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy and dangerous area around Jamestown Settlement, Virginia. ...
Portrait thought to be Nicholson Sir Francis Nicholson (1655-1728) was a British military officer and was colonial governor or acting governor of New York, Virginia, Maryland, Nova Scotia, and South Carolina. ...
The Reverend Dr. James Blair James Blair, D.D., (1656–April 18, 1743), was a clergyman, missionary, educator, and is best known as the founder of the College of William and Mary. ...
William III (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was the Prince of Orange from his birth, Stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic from 28 June 1672, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots (under the name William II) from...
Mary II (30 April 1662–28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and as Queen of Scots (as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death. ...
The College of William and Mary (also known as William & Mary, W&M or The College) is a small, selective, coeducational public university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. ...
The rebuilt statehouse in Jamestown burned again in 1698. After that fire, upon suggestion of students of the College of William and Mary, the colonial capital was permanently moved to nearby Middle Plantation again, and the town was renamed Williamsburg, in honor of William of Orange, King William III. Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
William III (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was the Prince of Orange from his birth, Stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic from 28 June 1672, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots (under the name William II) from...
Border dispute The colony of Maryland and Virginia had a long series of border disputes of which one continues to this day. The dispute revolved around the boundary that King Charles I granted the charter to George Calvert the baron of Maryland in 1632. It granted him feudal rights of the region between lat. 40°N and the Potomac River which Virginia claimed. The disputes over the area were mostly resolved in 1930. However Maryland and Virginia still dispute the usage of the Potomac and water rights. Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 42nd - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²) - Width 101 miles (145 km) - Length 249 miles (400 km) - % water 21 - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N...
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution. ...
George Calvert was born in Kipling, Yorkshire, in 1580. ...
The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States (USA). ...
Exploration; Shenandoah Valley Alexander Spotswood became lieutenant governor, or acting royal governor, of Virginia in 1710, and in 1716 he led an expedition of westward exploration, later known as the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition. Spotswood's party reached the top ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap (elevation 2,365 feet). Alexander Spotswood c. ...
This is a list of colonial governors of Virginia. ...
The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition took place in 1716 in the British Colony of Virginia. ...
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shining Rock Wilderness Area Appalachian Mountain system The Blue Ridge is a mountain chain in the eastern United States, part of the Appalachian Mountains, forming their eastern front from Georgia to Pennsylvania. ...
Swift Run Gap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. ...
Social Order Historian Douglas Southall Freeman has explained the social structure of the 1740s: Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1023x678, 217 KB)[edit] Summary 1700 drawing of Byrd plantation Virginia [edit] Licensing This image is in the public domain in the United States. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1023x678, 217 KB)[edit] Summary 1700 drawing of Byrd plantation Virginia [edit] Licensing This image is in the public domain in the United States. ...
West of the fall line ... the settlements fringed toward the frontier of the Blue Ridge and the Valley of the Shenandoah. Democracy was real where life was raw. In Tidewater, the flat country East of the fall line, there were no less than eight strata of society. The uppermost and the lowliest, the great proprietors and the Negro slaves, were supposed to be of immutable station. The others were small farmers, merchants, sailors, frontier folk, servants and convicts. Each of these constituted a distinct class at a given time, but individuals and families often shifted materially in station during a single generation. Titles hedged the ranks of the notables. Members of the Council of State were termed both "Colonel" and "Esquire." Large planters who did not bear arms almost always were given the courtesy title of "Gentlemen." So were Church Wardens, Vestrymen, Sheriffs and Trustees of towns. The full honors of a man of station were those of Vestryman [of the Church], Justice [lifetime member of the County Court, appointed by the legislature] and Burgess [elected member of the legislature]. Such an individual normally looked to England and especially to London and sought to live by the social standards of the mother country.[Freeman, Washington 1:79]
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Church of England and the new Virginia Colony When the English colony was established in Virginia, the role of the Church of England and its relationship to the government had been established by King Henry VIII some years earlier. The same relationship was established in the new colony. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[3] in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communions thirty-eight independent national churches. ...
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ...
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The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[3] in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communions thirty-eight independent national churches. ...
Early religious life in the colony At Jamestown, worship services and a primitive chapel were early priorities even as the first fort was built, with Robert Hunt as the spiritual leader. Hunt was the spiritual leader of the three ship expedition headed by Christopher Newport and lit the candle for the Anglican Church in Virginia a few weeks earlier when he first lifted his voice in public thanksgiving and prayer on April 29, 1607, when the settlers made their "First Landing" in the New World and planted a cross at Cape Henry, near the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. [7] Robert Hunt (c. ...
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Frontispiece of Peter Martyr dAnghieras De orbe novo (On the New World). Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, 1722. ...
Cape Henry is a cape on the Atlantic shore of Virginia. ...
Captain John Smith described Reverend Hunt as "our honest, religious and courageous divine." In his role as religious leader, he was a peacemaker, often bringing harmony to a quarreling group of men. [8] Reverend Hunt was among those who did not survive that first year. Statue at Jamestown VA, photo Aug 2007 Captain/Sir John Smith (1580–June 21, 1631), was an English soldier, sailor, and author. ...
Parishes: functionally, a local governmental unit After 5 very difficult years, during which the majority of the continually arriving colonists also did not survive, the colony began to grow more successfully. As in England, the parish became a unit of local importance equal in power and practical aspects to other entities such as the courts and even the House of Burgesses and the Governor's Council (the precursors of the Virginia General Assembly). (A parish was normally led spiritually by a rector and governed by a committee of members generally respected in the community which was known as the vestry). A typical parish contained three or four churches, as the parish churches needed to be close enough for travel to worship, which was basically expected of everyone. Virtually all parishes had a church farm (or "glebe") to help support it financially. [9] The Virginia General Assembly is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. ...
In medieval Europe, a glebe was an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. ...
Expansion and subdivision of the church parishes and after 1634 the shires (or counties) each followed the growth. The intention of the Virginia parish system was to place a church not more than six miles-easy riding distance-from every home in the colony. [10] The shires, soon after initial establishment in 1634 known as "counties", were planned to be not more than a day's ride from all residents, so that court and other business could be attended to in a practical manner. Eight Shires of Virginia were formed in 1634 in the Virginia Colony. ...
Missionaries to educate and convert the natives Religious leaders in England felt they had a duty as missionaries to bring Christianity (or more specifically, the religious practices and beliefs of the Church of England), to the Native Americans. There was an assumption that their own "mistaken" spiritual beliefs were largely the result of a lack of education and literacy, since the Powhatan did not have a written language. Therefore, teaching them these skills would logically result in what the English saw as "enlightenment" in their religious practices, and bring them into the fold of the church, which was part of the government, and hence, a form of control. For other uses, see Missionary (disambiguation). ...
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The leaders of the Virginia Colony had long desired a school of higher education, for the sons of planters, and for educating the natives. An earlier attempt to establish a permanent university at Henricus for these purposes around 1618 had gotten off to a start, and had been promising, but failed after the Indian Massacre of 1622 wiped out the entire settlement, which was not rebuilt. For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ...
The Citie of Henricus was a city founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy and dangerous area around Jamestown Settlement, Virginia. ...
For a bill proposed in USA in 1998, see Bill 1618. ...
Indian massacre of 1622, depicted as a woodcut by Theodore de Bry The Indian massacre of 1622 (also known as the Jamestown massacre) occurred in the Virginia Colony on March 22, 1622. ...
Almost 70 years later, with encouragement from the Colony's House of Burgesses and other prominent individuals, Blair prepared a plan, believed by some historians to be modeled after the earlier one from Henricus, and returned to England in 1691 to petition the monarchy for a new college. Patrick Henry before the House of Burgesses in an 1851 painting by Peter F. The House of Burgesses was the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. ...
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Statue of James Blair on the William & Mary campus. Control of the Powhatan was no longer a priority in the Colony, as they had been largely decimated and reduced to reservations after the last major conflict in 1644, but the religious principle of educating them in Christianity was nevertheless retained, perhaps as a moral incentive to help successfully gain support and approval in London for the new College of William and Mary, which received its Royal Charter in 1693. However, the efforts to educate and convert the natives there to Christianity were minimal and short-lived once the school was established. The College of William and Mary (also known as William & Mary, W&M or The College) is a small, selective, coeducational public university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. ...
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Bruton Parish Church at Middle Plantation Bruton Parish was located in the tiny community of Middle Plantation, which was located on high ground midway across the Virginia Peninsula about 8 miles north of Jamestown. Colonel John Page, a merchant who had emigrated from Middlesex, England with his wife Alice Lucken Page in 1650, was largely responsible for building Middle Plantation into a substantial town. Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
Colonel John Page (December 26, 1628-January 23, 1692), a resident of Middle Plantation on the Virginia Peninsula, was a member of the House of Burgesses and a wealthy landowner in the Virginia Colony. ...
Middlesex as a traditional county. ...
Formed through modification and combinations of earlier small parishes, a fine but small brick church was built there. Bruton Parish Church was largely financed by a generous contribution from Colonel Page, who also donated the land, church was built upon. The building was complete by November 29, 1683. The first rector, the Reverend Rowland Jones, dedicated the structure on January 6, 1684 at the Epiphany. [11] Bruton Parish Church is located in the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
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Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ...
Adoration of the Magi by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 17th century (Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio). ...
The capital at Middle Plantation/Williamsburg The College of William and Mary and the capital of the colony were relocated to Middle Plantation in 1699. The community was renamed Williamsburg in honor of King William III). Immediate provision was made for construction of a capitol building and for platting the new city according to the survey of Theodoric Bland. Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Theodoric Bland made a survey in 1693 of the Howson Patent, which is an area corresponding to present day Alexandria, Virginia. ...
Bruton Parish Church held a prominent location in the new plan. Historians from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation have noted that the brick church stood near the center of Williamsburg's original survey map. The layout may have been designed at least partially around the extant church, suggesting the church's importance to the colonial community's life. [12] Thus, the previously rural Bruton Parish Church was suddenly serving a small community (about 10 square miles) found itself located adjacent to both the new college and the new capital of the colony. During the colonial period, all those in public office were required to attend church. Government and College officials in the capital city of Williamsburg attended Bruton Parish Church. The influx of students, the governor and his entourage, and the legislature, as well as townspeople overwhelmed the small church. View of Duke of Gloucester Street Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
The church and Williamsburg were each central to the life and government of the colony. As the court church of colonial Virginia, Bruton Parish Church soon took on appropriate trappings, such as an altar cloth and cushion. [13] However, the brick church was in poor condition and deemed inadequate for its prominent role. [14]
1715: a new church building In 1706, the vestry of Bruton Parish began considering building a larger church. However, with only 110 families as late as almost 20 years later (in 1724), the parish vestry could only afford to plan a small church, and invited the colony's government to finance an enlargement to accommodate the needs not arising from the local residents. [15] Four years later the General Assembly agreed to fund pews for the governor, council, and burgesses. Royal Governor Alexander Spotswood drafted plans for the structure: a cruciform-shaped church (the first in Virginia) 75 feet long, 28 feet wide, with 19 foot long transepts (wings.) The Virginia General Assembly is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. ...
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Under the watchful eye of Reverend Dr. James Blair, who was rector from 1710 to 1743 (and also president of William and Mary from 1693 until his death), the construction of the new church got underway, with the first construction contract awarded in 1711. Finished in 1715, the church soon had all the required furnishings: Bible, prayer books, altar, font, cushions, surplice, bell, and reredos tablets. [16] The Reverend Dr. James Blair James Blair D.D. (1656 – April 18, 1743) was a Scottish Episcopalian clergyman, missionary and educator, best known as the founder of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. // James Blair was born in Banffshire, Scotland as one of five children. ...
In addition to the Royal Governors and officials of the college of William and Mary, prominent Virginians who attended Bruton Parish Church in the 18th century included George Washington, James Madison, John Tyler, Benjamin Harrison, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson. George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ...
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Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his stirring oratory. ...
Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ...
18th century clergy In the 1740s, the established Anglican church had about 70 parish priests around the colony. There was no bishop, and indeed, there was fierce political opposition to having a bishop in the colony. The Anglican priests were supervised directly by the Bishop of London. Each county court gave tax money to the local vestry, comprised of prominent layman. The vestry provided the priest a glebe of 200 or 300 acres, a house, and perhaps some livestock. The vestry paid him an annual salary of 16,000 lbs. of tobacco, plus 20 shillings for every wedding and funeral. While not poor, the priests' living were modest and their opportunities for improvement were slim. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[3] in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communions thirty-eight independent national churches. ...
Arms of the Bishop of London The Bishop of London is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury. ...
In medieval Europe, a glebe was an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. ...
The compensation arrangements led to the conflict between 1758 and 1764 known as Parson's Cause, which eventually pitted a parish priest, Reverend James Maury (grandfather of Matthew Fontaine Maury), against a young attorney named Patrick Henry of Hanover County. In his first notable case, Patrick Henry lost, but the court only awarded Reverend Maury a single penny in compensation. The case is widely viewed by historians as an example of the conflicts which were gaining momentum over the authority over the public of the King and the church in the colony. For six critical years it helped to bring the people of Virginia face to face with fundamental questions. [17] The Parsons Cause was an important legal and political dispute often viewed as an important event lea]]ding up to the American Revolution. ...
James Maury was Thomas Jeffersons early teacher. ...
Matthew Fontaine Maury Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806 – February 1, 1873), USN - American astronomer, astrophysicist, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator. ...
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his stirring oratory. ...
Hanover County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
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Other religions in Colonial era Some ethnic groups, especially the German Lutherans and Scottish Presbyterians, funded their own ministers. A majority of families had no religious affiliation whatsoever. By the 1760s, Baptist missionaries were drawing Virginians, especially farmers, into a new, much more democratic religion. Many slaves attended Baptist services. Historians have debated the implications of the religious rivalries for the American Revolution. The Baptist farmers did introduce a new egalitarian ethic that largely displaced the semi-aristocratic ethic of the Anglican planters. However, both groups supported the Revolution. George Washington, for example, was active in his vestry. The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ...
Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ...
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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ...
Changes in the Church after the American Revolution After the American Revolution, and Freedom of Religion and the Separation of Church and State were established in Virginia, the Church of England in the United States lost prominence. Leaders and citizens of the new state and country did not reject their church, only its structure in relationship to government. Worship continued, in some places at a heightened pace, during the difficult years of the War and therefter. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guarantees freedom of religion, as long as religious activities do not infringe on public order in ways detrimental to society. ...
Constantines Conversion, depicting the conversion of Emperor Constantine the Great to Christianity, by Peter Paul Rubens. ...
Although shorn of a governmental role and financial support, the Church survived in modified form as what is now known as the Episcopal Church of the United States. The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington DC is the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. ...
Before the Revolution, there had been no bishop in the colony. After the War, the first Bishop of Virginia was the Right Reverend James Madison (1749-1812). He was a cousin of future President of the United States James Madison, and was ordained in England just before the American Revolution. A graduate of the College of William and Mary and a teacher there as the hostilities broke out, he organized his students into a local militia. In 1777, he served as chaplain of the Virginia House of Delegates. The same year, Loyalist sympathies of the Reverend John Camm (who had been the initial litigant in the Parson's Cause case 1758-1764) brought about his removal from the faculty, and Reverend Madison became the 8th president of the College of William and Mary. [18] The Right Reverend James Madison (August 27, 1749 – March 6, 1812) was the first bishop of the Diocese of Virginia of the Episcopal Church, USA, and served as president of the College of William and Mary. ...
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The Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly. ...
After the Revolution, Madison played a prominent role in the reorganization of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and in the formation of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. He was president of the first convention of the church in 1785. Madison was appointed as the first Bishop of Virginia by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1790. [19] The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America encompassing 38 counties in the northern and central parts of the state of Virginia. ...
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England, recognized by convention as the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...
Revolution: Virginia Declares Independence
Antecedents Revolutionary sentiments first began appearing in Virginia shortly after the French and Indian War ended in 1763. The very same year, the British and Virginian governments clashed in the case of Parson's Cause. The Virginia legislature had passed the Two-Penny Act to stop clerical salaries from inflating. King George III vetoed the measure, and clergy sued for back salaries. Patrick Henry first came to prominence by arguing in the case against the veto, which he declared tyrannical. Combatants France First Nations allies: Algonquin Lenape Wyandot Ojibwa Ottawa Shawnee Great Britain American Colonies Iroquois Confederacy Strength 3,900 regulars 7,900 militia 2,200 natives (1759) 50,000 regulars and militia (1759) Casualties 3,000 killed, wounded or captured 10,040 killed, wounded or captured The French and...
The Parsons Cause was an important legal and political dispute often viewed as an important event lea]]ding up to the American Revolution. ...
George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his stirring oratory. ...
 Patrick Henry's speech on the Virginia Resolves The British government had accumulated a great deal of debt through spending on its wars. To help payoff this debt, Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765. The General Assembly opposed the passage of the Sugar Act on the grounds of no taxation without representation. Patrick Henry opposed the Stamp Act in the Burgesses with a famous speech advising George III that "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell.." and the king "may profit by their example." The legislature passed the "Virginia Resolves" opposing the tax. Governor Francis Fauquier responded by dismissing the Assembly. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (580x750, 116 KB) [edit] Summary From: http://cgfa. ...
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A stamp act is a law enacted by a government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents. ...
No taxation without representation was a slogan in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies. ...
Patrick Henrys speech on the Virginia Resolves (an 1851 painting by Peter F. Rothermel) The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia General Assembly in response to the Stamp Act of 1765. ...
A Painting of Francis Fauquier Francis Fauquier was a Lieutenant Governor of the colony of Virginia (in what is today the United States), and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768. ...
Opposition continued after the resolves. The Northampton County court overturned the Stamp Act February 8, 1766. Various political groups, including the Sons of Liberty met and issued protests against the act. Most notably, Richard Bland published a pamphlet entitled An Enquiry into the Rights of Ike British Colonies. This document would set one of the basic political principles of the Revolution by stating that Virginia was a part of the British Empire, not the Kingdom of Great Britain, so it only owed allegiance to the Crown, not Parliament. Northampton County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
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Richard Bland (1710-1776) was an American planter and statesman from Virginia. ...
The Stamp Act was repealed, but additional taxation from the Revenue Act and the 1769 attempt to transport Bostonian rioters to London for trial incited more protest from Virginia. The Assembly met to consider resolutions condemning on the transport of the rioters, but Governor Botetourt, while sympathetic, dissolved the legislature. The Burgesses reconvened in Raleigh Tavern and made an agreement to ban British imports. Britain gave up the attempt to extradite the prisoners and lifted all taxes except the tax on tea in 1770. The Revenue Act was passed in 1764 by British Prime Minister, George Grenville to enforce the provisions of the Sugar Act (or Molasses Act) of 1733. ...
Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, more commonly known as Lord Botetourt, (1718-1770) was governor of the Virginia Colony from 1768 to 1770. ...
Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia gained some fame in the pre-Revolutionary War Colony of Virginia as a gathering place for the Burgesses after several Royal Governors officially dissolved the House of Burgesses, the elected legislative body, when their actions did not suit the Crown. ...
In 1773, because of a renewed attempt to extradite Americans to Britain, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason, and others created a committee of correspondence to deal with problems with Britain. Unlike other such committees of correspondence, this one was an official part of the legislature. Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732–June 19, 1794) was an American who served as the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785. ...
Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ...
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his stirring oratory. ...
For other persons named George Mason, see George Mason (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Committee of correspondence (disambiguation). ...
Following the closure of the port in Boston and several other offenses, the Burgesses approved June 1, 1774 as a day of "Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer" in a show of solidarity with Massachusetts. The Governor, Lord Dunmore, dismissed the legislature. The first Virginia Convention was held August 1-6 to respond to the growing crisis. The convention approved a boycott of British goods, expressed solidarity with Massachusetts, and elected delegates to the Continental Congress where Virginian Peyton Randolph was selected as president of the Congress. is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lord Dunmore John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–February 25, 1809) was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until just before the American Revolutionary War began in June 1775. ...
The Virginia Conventions were a series of five political meetings in the state of Virginia in response to British colonial rule. ...
The Continental Congress was the first national government of the United States. ...
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 Lord Dunmore fleeing to the Fowey On April 20, 1775, a day after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Dunmore ordered royal marines to remove the gunpowder from the Williamsburg Magazine to a British ship. Patrick Henry led a group of Virginia militia from Hanover in response to Dunmore's order. Carter Braxton negiotiated a resolution to the Gunpowder Incident by transferring royal funds as payment for the powder. The incident exacerbated Dunmore's declining popularity. He fled the Governor's Palace to the British ship Fowey at Yorktown. On November 7, Dunmore issued a proclamation declaring Virginia was in a state of rebellion and that any slave fighting for the British would be freed. By this time, George Washington had been appointed head of the American forces by the Continental Congress and Virginia was under the political leadership of a Committee of Safety formed by the Third Virginia Convention in the governor's absence. Image File history File links Flight_of_Dunmore. ...
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Year 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
The Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War and was described as the shot heard round the world in Emersons Concord Hymn. ...
Hanover County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Painting thought to be of Carter Braxton Carter Braxton (September 16, 1736–October 10, 1797), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a representative of Virginia. ...
Drawing of the octagonal Williamsburg Magazine The Gunpowder Incident (also known as the Gunpowder Affair) was a conflict early in the American Revolutionary War between Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of colonial Virginia, and militia led by Patrick Henry. ...
The Governors Palace from Palace Green The Governors Palace, home of the Colony of Virginias Royal Governors, is located on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia. ...
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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ...
On December 9, 1775, Virginia militia moved on the governor's forces at the Battle of Great Bridge. The British had held a fort that guarded the land route to Norfolk. The British feared the militia, who had no cannon for a siege, would receive reinforcements, so they abandoned the fort and attacked. The militia won the 30 minute battle. Dunmore responded by bombarding Norfolk with his ships on January 1, 1776. is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Combatants Patriot militia British militia Commanders William Woodford Lord Dunmore Strength 8,845 7,500 Casualties Americans: 20 killed, 56 wounded French: 52 killed, 134 wounded 156 killed 326 wounded 7,018 captured The Battle of Great Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought in the area...
Motto: Crescas (Latin for, Thou shalt grow. ...
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The Fifth Virginia Convention met on May 6 and declared Virginia a free and independent state on May 15, 1776. The convention instructed its delegates to introduce a resolution for independence at the Continental Congress. Richard Henry Lee introduced the measure on June 7. While the Congress debated, the Virginia Convention adopted George Mason's Bill of Rights (June 12) and a constitution (June 29) which established an independent commonwealth. Congress approved Lee's proposal on July 2 and approved Jefferson's Declaration of Independence on July 4. is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732–June 19, 1794) was an American who served as the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785. ...
is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Virginia Declaration of Rights is a declaration by the Virginia Convention of Delegates of rights of individuals and a call for independence from Britain. ...
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A declaration of independence is an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states. ...
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Independence The constitution of the Fifth Virginia Convention created a system of government for the state that would last for 54 years. The constitution provided for a chief magistrate, a bicameral legislature with both the House of Delegates and the Senate. The legislature elected a governor each year (picking Patrick Henry to be the first) and a council of eight for executive functions. In October, the legislature appointed Jefferson, Edmund Pendleton, and George Wythe to adopt the existing body of Virginia law to the new constitution. The Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly. ...
The Virginia Senate is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. ...
Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721-October 23, 1803) was a Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the American Revolutionary War. ...
George Wythe George Wythe (1726 – June 8, 1806), was a lawyer, a judge, a prominent law professor and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. ...
 Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia. Etching from 1789. After the Battle of Great Bridge, little military conflict took place on Virginia soil for the first part of the American Revolutionary War. Nevertheless, Virginia sent forces to help in the fighting to the North and South, including Daniel Morgan and his company of marksmen who fought in early battles in the north. Charlottesville served as a prison camp for the Convention Army, Hessian and British soldiers captured at Saratoga. Virginia also sent forces to the frontier in the Northwest, George Rogers Clark led forces in this area and captured the fort at Kaskaskia and won the Battle of Vincennes, capturing the royal governor, Henry Hamilton. Clark maintained control of the Northwest territories throughout the war. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x917, 327 KB) Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after they had surrendered to the Americans. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x917, 327 KB) Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after they had surrendered to the Americans. ...
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Daniel Morgan (July 6, 1736 – July 6, 1802) was an American pioneer, soldier, and United States Representative from Virginia. ...
Charlottesville is an independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom. ...
The Convention Army (1777-1783) were the British and allied troops captured after the Battle of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War. ...
Clark as painted by Matthew Harris Jouett in 1825 George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the preeminent American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. ...
The Kaskaskia were one of the several cognate tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation. ...
Combatants Great Britain United States Commanders Henry Hamilton # George Rogers Clark Strength 80 British regulars, militia and French volunteers Native American raiding party-in skirmish with Clarks forces between 47 and 170 Casualties 1 killed+4 POW Killed {Native Americans}. 2 wounded & 1 POW (Native American}. British Garrison captured...
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The British brought the war back to Virginia in May, 1779 when George Collier landed troops at Hampton Roads and used Portsmouth (after destroying the naval yard) as a base of attack. The move was part of an attempted blockade of trade with the West Indies. The British abandoned the plan when reinforcements from General Henry Clinton failed to arrive to support Collier. This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...
The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ...
General Sir Henry Clinton K.B. Commander-in-Chief of British troops in America. ...
Fearing the vulnerability of Williamsburg, then-Governor Thomas Jefferson moved the capital farther inland to Richmond in 1780. That October, the British made another attempt at invading Virginia. British General Alexander Leslie entered the Chesapeake with 3,000 troops and used Portsmouth as a base; however, after the British defeat at the Battle of King's Mountain, Leslie moved to join Cornwallis farther south. In December, Benedict Arnold, who had betrayed the Revolution and become a general for the British, attacked Richmond with 1,000 soldiers and burned part of the city. Arnold moved his base of operations to Portsmouth and joined with General William Phillips. Tim Kaine, the current Governor The Governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term. ...
Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ...
Nickname: Motto: Sic dic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area - City 62. ...
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Lord Balgonie, (appr. ...
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a fight in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, fought on October 7, 1780. ...
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (December 31, 1738-October 5, 1805) was a British general and colonial governor. ...
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William Phillips (1731-1781) was an Artilleryman and General Officer in the British Army who served as a Major General in the American Revolutionary War. ...
George Washington sent the French General Lafayette to lead the defense of Virginia. Lafayette marched south to Petersburg. Cornwallis, frustrated in the Carolinas, responded by attacking Virginia in pursuit of Lafayette. Lafayette only had 3,200 troops to face Cornwallis's 7,200. The outnumbered Lafayette avoided direct confrontation and harried Cornwallis in a series of skirmishes. Lafayette retreated to Fredericksburg, met up with General Anthony Wayne, and then marched into the southwest. Cornwallis dispatched two smaller missions: 500 soldiers under Colonel John Graves Simcoe to take the arsenal at Point of Fork and 250 under Colonel Banastre Tarleton to march on Charlottesville and capture Gov. Jefferson and the legislature. The expedition to Point of Fork defeated General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben while Tarleton's mission captured only seven legislators and some officers thanks to Jack Jouett's all night ride to warn Jefferson and the legislators of Tarleton's coming.[1] Cornwallis reunited his army in Elk Hill and marched to the Tidewater region. Lafayette, uniting with von Steuben, now had 5,000 troops and followed Cornwallis. Lieutenant General & National Guard Commander-in-Chief Lafayette in 1792 at ~35yrs. ...
Nickname: Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Founded December 17, 1748 Government - Mayor Annie M. Mickens Area - City 23. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City* Founded 1728 Incorporated 1781 Government - Mayor Thomas Tomzak Area - City 10. ...
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796), was a United States Army general and statesman. ...
John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (modern-day southern Ontario plus the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior) from 1791-1796. ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton by Sir Joshua Reynolds General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB (21 August 1754 – 25 January 1833) was a British soldier and politician. ...
Baron von Steuben Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Steuben, Baron von Steuben (* September 17, 1730; †November 28, 1794) was a German-Prussian General who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline. ...
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The Tidewater region of Virginia is the southeastern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia, centered on Hampton Roads. ...
Under orders from Gen. Henry Clinton, Cornwallis moved down the Virginia Peninsula towards the Chesapeake Bay were Clinton planned to extract part of the army for a siege of New York City. Cornwallis passed through Williamsburg and near Jamestown. 800 of Lafayette's troops under Gen. Wayne were caught by the much larger, 5,000 soldier, main body of Cornwallis's forces and the two fought at the minor Battle of Green Spring on July 6, 1781. Wayne ordered a charge against Cornwallis in order to feign greater strength and stop the British advance. Causalities were light with the Americans losing 140 and the British 75, but the ploy allowed the Americans to escape. General Sir Henry Clinton K.B. Commander-in-Chief of British troops in America. ...
The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. ...
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Battle of Green Spring took place at Green Spring Plantation in James City County, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. ...
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Cornwallis moved his troops across the James to Portsmouth to await Clinton's orders. Clinton decided that a position on the peninsula must be held and that Yorktown would be a valuable naval base. Cornwallis received orders to move his troops to Yorktown and begin construction of fortifications and a naval yard. The Americans had initially expected Cornwallis to move either to New York or the Carolinas and started to make arrangements to move from Virginia. Once they discovered the fortifications at Yorktown, the Americans began to place themselves around the city. Gen. Washington saw the opportunity for a major victory. He moved a portion of his troops, along with Rochambeau's French troops, from New York to Virginia. The plan hinged on French reinforcements of 3,200 troops and a large naval force under the Admiral de Grasse. On September 5, Admiral de Grasse defeated British navy at the Battle of the Virginia Capes. The defeat ensured French dominance of the water around Yorktown, thereby preventing Cornwallis from receiving troops or supplies and removing the possibility of evacuation. Between October 6 and 17 the American forces laid siege to Yorktown. Out gunned and completely trapped, Cornwallis decided to surrender. Papers for surrender were officially signed on October 19. As a result of the defeat, the British Prime Minister, Lord North, resigned and the British government offered peace in April, 1782. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 officially ended the war. Image File history File links Yorktown80. ...
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York Hall is a government building on Yorktowns historic Main Street. ...
Rochambeau may refer to one of several things: Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French military leader during the American Revolution The USS Rochambeau (AP-63) was a transport ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. Cayenne-Rochambeau Airport (ICAO:SOCA, IATA...
Fran ois Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse (1722 - January 1788), French admiral, was born at Bar, in the present d partment of the Alpes-Maritimes. ...
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Combatants France Great Britain Commanders Comte de Grasse Sir Thomas Graves Strength 24 ships 19 ships Casualties none some ships damaged The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as Battle of the Virginia Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American Revolutionary War which took place near the mouth...
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Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (April 13, 1732–August 5, 1792), more often known by his earlier title, Lord North, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782, and a major actor in the American Revolution. ...
Painting by Benjamin West depicting (from left to right) John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. ...
Statehood
Making the Constitution By the end of the Revolutionary War, the new American states had joined together under the Articles of Confederation. The Confederation granted very little power to the federal government. Virginia helped begin the move to stronger union by meeting with representatives from Maryland to discuss trade and navigation issues in 1785. The two states invited other to the Annapolis Convention, held in September 1786, to discuss these issues. Washington, Madison, and Alexander Hamilton all saw the talks as an opportunity for stronger union. The Annapolis Convention agreed to meet again in Philadelphia for a Constitutional Convention. At the Convention, Edmund Randolph promoted the Virginia Plan designed by Madison. This plan called for a strong national government with a bicameral legislature, where representatives were allocated proportionally based on population. Some of the ideas of the plan were adopted, but smaller states did not like having proportional representation, so compromise was struck and each state received two Senators in the upper house. The Virginia delegates also pushed for a bill of rights. Most agreed to sign the United States Constitution on the promise that a bill of rights would be quickly adopted, but George Mason and Randolph refused to sign. Madison wrote several of the Federalist papers and took other measures to push for ratification of the Constitution. Mason and Patrick Henry led the political opposition. Many in the Piedmont region and southwest Virginia opposed ratification because of fears over tariffs and since importation of slaves were still allowed. Virginia narrowly ratified the Constitution on June 25, 1788, and became the tenth state to enter the Union. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly known as the Articles of Confederation, was the first governing document, or constitution, of the United States of America. ...
The Annapolis Convention was a meeting at Annapolis, Maryland of 12 delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) that called for a constitutional convention. ...
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 - July 12, 1804) was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist. ...
This article discusses the history of the United States Constitution. ...
A proposal by Virginia delegates during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the Virginia Plan (also known as the Large State Plan) was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the...
A bill of rights is a list or summary of rights that are considered important and essential by a group of people. ...
Wikisource has original text related to this article: The United States Constitution The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ...
For other persons named George Mason, see George Mason (disambiguation). ...
An advertisement for The Federalist The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. ...
The James River winds its way among piedmont hills in central Virginia. ...
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Changing borders After declaring independence, Virginia's borders shifted a great deal. In 1779, Virginia extended its southern border with North Carolina westward. In 1784 and 1785, Virginia negiotiated its northern border with Pennsylvania. Virginia and Pennsylvania also had disputes along the Virginia-Pennsylvania border areas throughout the colonial period. After the areas in dispute became part of the newly-formed United States, the new states of Virginia and Pennsylvania (each one of the first thirteen states which formed the union) soon reached an agreement, and most of Yohogania County, claimed by both, became part of Pennsylvania in the 1780s under terms agreed of the state legislatures of both Virginia and Pennsylvania. A small remaining portion left in Virginia was too small to form a county, and was annexed to another Virginia county, Ohio County. Yohogania County was created by the new state of Virginia in 1776, in an area long disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania. ...
Ohio County is a county located in the northern panhandle of the state of West Virginia. ...
Most significantly, Virginia relinquished its claims to the Northwest Territory in 1784. This vast area, consisting of much of the modern Midwest and Great Lakes region, was frontier land at the time. Several of the states claimed the territory, but all eventually agreed to let the federal government take control under the Northwest Ordinance. Virginia did not relinquish all land, it preserved the Virginia Military District, an area of land set aside to reward veterans of the Revolutionary War. In 1790, both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to form the new District of Columbia, but in an Act of the U.S. Congress dated July 9, 1846, the area south of the Potomac that had been ceded by Virginia was retroceded to Virginia effective 1847, and is now Arlington County and part of the City of Alexandria. The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States. ...
Northwest Territory (1787). ...
The Virginia Military District was an approximately 4. ...
Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 42nd - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²) - Width 101 miles (145 km) - Length 249 miles (400 km) - % water 21 - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N...
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Potomac may refer to: Potomac River, which flows through Washington DC and Alexandria VA, USA Potomac, an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA Potomac, a village in Vermilion County, Illinois, USA Potomac, a Native American tribe A general term given to the Washington, D.C./Maryland metropolitan area One...
Aerial photo of Washington, D.C. The history of Washington, D.C. is tied intrinsically to its role as the capital of the United States. ...
Arlington County is an urban county of about 203,000 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. [1] Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Founded 1749 Government - Mayor William D. Euille Area - Total 15. ...
Virginia: 1789-1848 - See also: History of the United States (1789–1849)
As the new nation of the United States of America experienced growing pains and began to speak of Manifest Destiny, Virginia, too, found its role in the young republic to be changing and challenging. Beginning with the Louisiana Purchase, many of the Virginians whose grandparents had created the Virginia Establishment began to expand westward. This article covers the History of the United States from 1789 through 1849. ...
Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic - President George W. Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized...
This article is about the history and influence of the concept. ...
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane) was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km²) of French territory (Louisiana) in 1803. ...
Famous Virginian-born Americans affected not only the destiny of the state of Virginia, but the rapidly developing American Old West. The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American Old West, circa 1887. ...
Beginning in the 1750s, the Ohio Company of Virginia was created to survey and settle its new lands. Following the French and Indian War, westward settlement by Virginians was limited to more southern portions of the American Old West. The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries The Ohio Company, more formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the colonization of the Ohio Country. ...
Combatants France First Nations allies: Algonquin Lenape Wyandot Ojibwa Ottawa Shawnee Great Britain American Colonies Iroquois Confederacy Strength 3,900 regulars 7,900 militia 2,200 natives (1759) 50,000 regulars and militia (1759) Casualties 3,000 killed, wounded or captured 10,040 killed, wounded or captured The French and...
The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American Old West, circa 1887. ...
Virginians Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were influential in their famous expedition to explore the Missouri River and possible connections to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774–October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana...
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Notable names such as Stephen F. Austin, Edwin Waller, Haden Harrison Edwards, and Dr. John Shackelford were famous Texan pioneers from Virginia. Even eventual Civil War general Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as a military leader in Texas during the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War. Stephen F. Austin Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836), known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by the United States. ...
Judge Edwin Waller (November 4, 1800-January 3, 1881) was an entrepreneur, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, the first mayor of Austin, Texas and the designer of its downtown grid plan. ...
Haden Harrison Edwards (1771-1849), was a Texas settler and land speculator. ...
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Combatants United States Mexico Commanders Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Stephen W. Kearney Antonio López de Santa Anna Mariano Arista Pedro de Ampudia José Mariá Flores Strength 78,790 soldiers 25,000–40,000 soldiers Casualties KIA: 1733 Total dead: 13,271 Wounded: 4,152 AWOL: 9,200+ 25,000...
Regional differences, secession 1818-1861 As the western reaches of Virginia were developed in the first half of the 19th century, the vast differences in the agricultural basis, cultural, and transportation needs became a major issue for the Virginia General Assembly. In the older, eastern portion, large tracts of land were farmed with tobacco and cotton as major crops, each requiring a great deal of manual labor. Slavery had become an economic institution upon which the farmers depended. Watersheds on most of this area eventually drained to the Atlantic Ocean. In the western reaches, smaller homesteads were mostly farmed without non-family labor, and mining of minerals and harvesting of timber were expanding activities. The land drained to the Ohio River Valley, and trade tended to also center in that direction. The Virginia General Assembly is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. ...
View of Pittsburgh, the largest metropolitan area on the Ohio River, where the Allegheny River (left) and the Monongahela River (right) join at Point State Park to form the Ohio River Cincinnati, Ohio is a well known city along the Ohio River, historically known for its riverboats. ...
Representation in the state legislature was heavily skewed in favor of the more populous eastern areas. This was compounded by the partial allowance for slaves when counting population, despite the fact that these individuals (and all women and children) had no vote. Efforts to mediate the disparities several times including a state constitutional convention ended without meaningful resolution. Thus, at the outset of the American Civil War, Virginia was caught not only in national crisis, but a long-standing factional one within its own boundaries. While other "border states" had similar regional differences, Virginia had more than any other Northern or Southern state, and probably as a result, was the only state to actually become subdivided into two separate states during the War.
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Virginia began a convention about secession on February 13, 1861 after six states seceded to form the Confederate States of America on February 4. The convention deliberated for several months, but, on April 15 Lincoln called for troops from all states still in the Union in response to the firing on Fort Sumter. On April 17, 1861 the convention voted to secede. With the entry of Virginia into the Confederacy, the decision to move the Confederate capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond was made on May 6 and enacted on May 29. Virginians ratified the articles of secession on May 23.[2] The following day, the Union army moved into northern Virginia and captured Alexandria without a fight. Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...
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Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia (May 29, 1861–April 2, 1865) Danville, Virginia (from April 3, 1865) Language(s) English (de facto) Government...
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Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government - Mayor Bobby Bright Area - City 156. ...
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The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of Shermans veterans. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Founded 1749 Government - Mayor William D. Euille Area - Total 15. ...
The first major battle of the Civil War occurred on July 21, 1861. Union forces attempted to take control of the railroad junction at Manassas for use as a supply line, but the Confederate Army had moved its forces by train to meet the Union. The Confederates won the First Battle of Manassas (known as "Bull Run"in Northern naming convention) and the year went on without a major fight. is the 202nd day of the year (203rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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First Battle of Bull Run Conflict American Civil War Date July 21, 1861 Place Fairfax County and Prince William County Result Confederate victory The First Battle of Bull Run, referred to as the First Battle of Manassas in the South, (July 21, 1861) was the first major land battle of...
The first and last significant battles were held in Virginia. The first being the Battle of Manassas and the last being Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. During the American Civil War, Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America. The White House of the Confederacy, located a few blocks north of the State Capital, was home to the family of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Two conflicts during the American Civil War were known as Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Manassas: First Battle of Bull Run Second Battle of Bull Run This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Combatants United States of America Confederate States of America Commanders Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee # Strength Army of the Potomac, Army of the James Army of Northern Virginia Casualties 164[1] ~500 killed and wounded[1] 27,805 surrendered and paroled The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse was the final...
White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1818, photo circa 1939. ...
In April 1865, Richmond was burned by a retreating Confederate Army and was returned to Northern control. Virginia was administered as the "First Military District" during the Reconstruction period (1865-1870) under General John Schofield. The state formally rejoined the Union on January 26, 1870. This article is in need of attention. ...
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Portrait of John Schofield during the Civil War John McAllister Schofield (September 29, 1831 – March 4, 1906) was an American soldier who held major commands during the Civil War. ...
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Industrialization Various textile production was present prior to 1861 but nothing of great signifigance. A center of iron production during the civil war was located in Richmond at Tredegar Iron Works. Tredegar was run partially by slave labor, and it produced most of the artillery for the war, making Richmond an important point to defend. Nickname: Motto: Sic dic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area - City 62. ...
Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia, USA, photograph by Alexander Gardener Tredegar Iron Works is a historic iron foundry in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. ...
West Virginia split Virginia was one of the last states to join the Confederacy largely because the lack of support in the North-Western region due to the lack of slavery in this region. After it did join, an upheaval in that region soon followed. After a successful revolt, the area consisting of 48 counties became known as the State of Kanawha and later West Virginia. The act was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1870. Kanawha was an extralegal American state formed on October 24, 1861. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Largest metro area Charleston metro area Area Ranked 41st - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 240 miles (385 km) - % water 0. ...
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS[1]) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. ...
Berkeley County and Jefferson County (in the extreme northern edge of the state) remained in the Confederacy and Virginia throughout the Civil War, and were not part of the formation of the State of Kanawha, renamed West Virginia, when it was admitted to the Union with 48 former Virginia counties on January 1, 1863. Rather, after the War, during Reconstruction, in 1866, these two counties decided in local referendums that they also wanted to be part of the new state of West Virginia, bringing the total to 50. Berkeley County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. ...
Jefferson County is a county located in the state of West Virginia. ...
Kanawha was an extralegal American state formed on October 24, 1861. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Largest metro area Charleston metro area Area Ranked 41st - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 240 miles (385 km) - % water 0. ...
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With the formation of West Virginia, Virginia no longer shared a border with Pennsylvania. However, even the Virginia-West Virginia border was subject to some fluctuation, with two Virginia counties electing to join West Virginia in 1866. Even in the 20th century, there were still some disputes about the precise location of the border in some of the northern mountain reaches of Virginia between Loudoun County and Jefferson County, West Virginia. In 1991, both state legislatures appropriated money for a boundary commission to look into 15 miles of the border area. [20] Loudoun County (pronounced LOUD-un; IPA: ) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. ...
Jefferson County is a county located in the state of West Virginia. ...
- See also: History of West Virginia
- See also: Restored government of Virginia
West Virginia is the only American state formed as a direct result of the American Civil War. ...
Reconstruction: 1865-1877 Virginia remained under military control until 1869, since the Union commander, General John M. Schofield, refused to authorize a vote on the constitution drafted by a Radical convention. President Grant called for a vote in 1869 that included a vote on the Constitution, a separate one on its disfranchisement clause that would have stripped the vote from most former rebels, and a separate vote for state officials. The Radicals nominated Henry H. Wells, a former general and provisional governor who was close to Schofield. The leader of the Democrats was William Mahone, a Democrat who said it was time for a New Departure. That is, Democrats had to accept the results of the war, including civil rights and the vote for Freedmen. He denounced the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad as too powerful, and called for new Virginia-based railroads that would lead the state to prosperity. He won over many moderate pro-business Republicans. For John Schofield, the recipient of a Victoria Cross see John Schofield (VC). ...
Henry Horatio Wells (1823-1890) was born September 17, 1823. ...
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 – October 8, 1895), of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. ...
Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad, with an original line from the port of Baltimore, Maryland, west to the Ohio River at Wheeling and a few years later also to Parkersburg, West Virginia. ...
Mahone's candidate for governor Gilbert C. Walker was elected and the disfranchisement clause defeated. The new Underwood Constitution was approved by a vote of 210,585 to 9,136, while the disfranchisement clauses were rejected by votes of 124,715 to 83,458 and 124,360 to 84,410 respectively. The state did not experience the corruption and race conflict that characterized the Reconstruction period in other southern states, yet white Virginians generally came to share the bitterness so typical of the southern attitudes. Gilbert Carlton Walker (1833–1885) was a United States political figure. ...
Virginia was thus the only southern state not to have a civilian Radical government.
Disfranchisement and New South 1877-1913 The Readjuster Party was a political faction formed in Virginia in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following Reconstruction. The so-called Readjusters aspired "to break the power of wealth and established privilege" and to promote public education. The Readjusters were led by Harrison H. Riddleberger of Woodstock, an attorney, and William Mahone, a former Confederate general who was president of several railroads. Mahone was a controlling force in Virginia politics from about 1870 until 1883, when the Readjusters lost control to the "Conservative Democrats." Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
The Readjuster Party was a political faction formed in Virginia in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following the American Civil War. ...
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Harrison Holt Riddleberger (October 4, 1844– January 24, 1890) was an American lawyer and politician from Woodstock, Virginia. ...
Woodstock is a town located in Shenandoah County, Virginia. ...
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 – October 8, 1895), of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. ...
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A division among Virginia politicians occurred in the 1870s, when those who supported a reduction of Virginia's pre-war debt ("Readjusters") opposed those who felt Virginia should repay its entire debt plus interest ("Funders"). Virginia's pre-war debt was primarily for infrastructure improvements overseen by the Virginia Board of Public Works, largely in canals, roads, and railroads. Prior to 1861, the State had purchased a total of $48,000,000 worth of stock in turnpike, toll bridge, canal, and water and rail transportation enterprises. Many these improvements were heavily damaged or destroyed during the Civil War by Union forces. Much of those remaining were located in the portion of the state which became West Virginia and much of the debt was held by "northerners", making the issue of debt repayment complex. The Virginia Board of Public Works was a governmental agency which oversaw and helped finance the development of Virginias internal transportation improvements during the 19th century. ...
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After his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1877, Mahone became the leader of the "Readjusters", forming a coalition of conservative Democrats, as a Republicans, and African-Americans seeking a reduction in Virginia's prewar debt, and an appropriate allocation made to the former portion of the state which constituted the new State of West Virginia. For several decades thereafter, the two states disputed the new state's share of the Virginian government's debt. The issue was finally settled in 1915, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed Virginia $12,393,929.50. The final installment of this sum was paid off in 1939. Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas Politics Portal Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic...
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The Readjuster Party promised to "readjust" the state debt, repeal the poll tax and increase funding for schools and other public facilities. The Readjuster Party was successful in electing its candidate, William E. Cameron as governor, and he served from 1882-1886. Mahone served as a Senator in the U.S. Congress from 1881 to 1887. However, in Congress, he became primarily aligned with the Republican Party, as did fellow Readjuster Harrison H. Riddleberger, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1883-1889. Both Mahone and Riddleberger were replaced in the U.S. Senate by Democrats. A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). ...
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Readjusters effective control of Virginia politics lasted until 1883, when they lost majority control in the state legislature, followed by the election of Democrat Fitzhugh Lee as governor in 1885. Mahone stayed active in politics, but lost his bid for reelection as U.S. Senator, as well as another bid for Governor (as a Republican). Riddleberger died in 1890, Mahone in 1895. Fitzhugh Lee in the Civil War Fitzhugh Lee (November 19, 1835 – April 18, 1905), nephew of Robert E. Lee, was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and U.S. Army general in the Spanish-American War. ...
After the Readjuster Party disappeared, Virginia had white, one-party rule under the Democratic Party for the next 80 years. White state legislators passed statutes to restrict voter registration to complete restoration of white supremacy and reduce voting by African Americans. In 1902 Virginia passed a new constitution that had provisions for voter registration that effectively disfranchised African Americans, through the use of poll taxes and literacy tests subjectively applied. Despite the gains of African Americans since the war and numerous educated free blacks before the war, the result was that the estimated black voter turnout for the Presidential election of 1904 was zero.[21] The disfranchisement was devastating and long lasting. Not until Federal civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 did African Americans recover the power to vote and protection of other basic civil rights.
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Arlington County is an urban county of about 203,000 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. [1] Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July...
Local, regional political structure, cooperation issues The independent cities in Virginia enabled by an 1871 change in the state constitution are unusual in the United States. Combined with the annexation laws, the situation provided both the motivation and methods for almost all the communities in the extreme southeastern section of Hampton Roads region of Virginia to become independent cities. In this status, they were equal to each other and this immune from annexation by adjacent localities, an action much-feared by those in many communities. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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However, this transition left the region with some oddities, such as the entire Virginia portion of the Great Dismal Swamp being located entirely within cities (Chesapeake and Suffolk). It is hard to imagine a less populated portion of a traditional city, save perhaps Central Park in New York City. The Great Dismal Swamp is located in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Although incorporated towns are located within counties, and independent cities are separate, both the towns and the cities long held a powerful tool for growth through Virginia's annexation laws, which basically provided for seizure of unincorporated territory from the counties. However, the annexation laws also have long been felt by many leaders to be a barrier to regional cooperation among localities, causing wounds which took many years to heal, and with some individuals negatively impacted, never did. An incorporated town in the United States is a town which is an incorporated municipality, that is, one with a charter received from the state, similar to a city. ...
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A moratorium on major annexations by the larger cities and adjacent counties has been in place since the late 20th century by actions in the Virginia General Assembly. Other changes have allowed cities to revert to town status and rejoin a county. South Boston and Clifton Forge took such actions, and several other smaller cities have studied doing so. Additionally, some Regional cooperation among the localities has been stimulated by the legislature through favorable funding incentives, with new regional jails as a prime example. The Virginia General Assembly is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. ...
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- ^ Price, 11
- ^ Boyer, 39, 41
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The Ajacan Mission was a failed attempt in the 16th century by Spanish Jesuit priests to settle and bring Christianize the Native Americans on the Virginia Peninsula in the New World. ...
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The Tri-Cities of Virginia (also known as the Tri-City area or the Appomatox Basin) is an area in the Greater Richmond Region which includes the three independent cities of Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Hopewell and portions of the adjoining counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Prince George in south...
The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. ...
| | Metro areas | Alexandria | Arlington | Blacksburg | Bluefield | Bristol | Christiansburg | Charlottesville | Culpeper | Danville | Fredericksburg | Harrisonburg | Lynchburg | Martinsville | Newport News | Norfolk | Radford | Richmond | Roanoke | Staunton | Virginia Beach | Warrenton | Waynesboro | Winchester | Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA)s as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget as of June 2003 a List of U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in Virginia as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget as of June, 2003. ...
Map of Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. ...
Map of Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. ...
Blacksburgs location within Virgina Virginias location within the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Montgomery Founded 1798 Government - Mayor Ron Rordam Area - Town 19. ...
Nickname: Virginia’s Tallest Town Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Tazewell Government - Mayor James Jones Area - City 7. ...
The Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA MSA is a U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). ...
Motto: Progressive Small Town Living at its Best Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Montgomery Incorporated November 10, 1792 Mayor Richard Ballengee Area - City 36. ...
Charlottesville is an independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom. ...
Culpeper is an incorporated town in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. ...
Nickname: River City, City of Churches Motto: A World Class Organization Country United States State Virginia County Independent City - Mayor R. Wayne Williams, Jr. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City* Founded 1728 Incorporated 1781 Government - Mayor Thomas Tomzak Area - City 10. ...
Nickname: Location in Virginia Coordinates: , County Independent City Founded 1737 Government - Mayor Rodney Eagle[1] Area - City 45. ...
Lynchburg is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Martinsville is an independent city located within the confines of Henry County, Virginia. ...
This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...
This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...
Radford is an independent city located in Virginia. ...
Richmond-Petersburg is a region located in a central part of the state of Virginia in the United States. ...
Nickname: Location in Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Government - Mayor Nelson Harris Area - City 43 sq mi (111. ...
West Beverley Street in downtown Staunton Staunton (IPA: or STAN-tehn or STANT-en) is an independent city within the confines of Augusta County in the commonwealth of Virginia. ...
This view from space in July 1996 shows portions of each of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which generally surround the harbor area of Hampton Roads, which framed by the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel visible to the east (right), the Virginia Peninsula subregion to the north (top), and the...
Street scene, Warrenton, Virginia, ca. ...
Downtown Waynesboro showing Main Street, as well as the scar on the mountain prior to being seeded. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Founded 1802 Government - Mayor Elizabeth Minor Area - City 9. ...
| | Counties | Accomack | Albemarle | Alleghany | Amelia | Amherst | Appomattox | Arlington | Augusta | Bath | Bedford | Bland | Botetourt | Brunswick | Buchanan | Buckingham | Campbell | Caroline | Carroll | Charles City | Charlotte | Chesterfield | Clarke | Craig | Culpeper | Cumberland | Dickenson | Dinwiddie | Essex | Fairfax | Fauquier | Floyd | Fluvanna | Franklin | Frederick | Giles | Gloucester | Goochland | Grayson | Greene | Greensville | Halifax | Hanover | Henrico | Henry | Highland | Isle of Wight | James City | King and Queen | King George | King William | Lancaster | Lee | Loudoun | Louisa | Lunenburg | Madison | Mathews | Mecklenburg | Middlesex | Montgomery | Nelson | New Kent | Northampton | Northumberland | Nottoway | Orange | Page | Patrick | Pittsylvania | Powhatan | Prince Edward | Prince George | Prince William | Pulaski | Rappahannock | Richmond | Roanoke | Rockbridge | Rockingham | Russell | Scott | Shenandoah | Smyth | Southampton | Spotsylvania | Stafford | Surry | Sussex | Tazewell | Warren | Washington | Westmoreland | Wise | Wythe | York The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties and 39 independent cities, which are considered county-equivalents for census puposes. ...
Accomack County is a county located in the state of Virginia, USA. As of 2000, the population is 38,305. ...
Albemarle County is a county located in the the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Alleghany County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Amelia County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Amherst County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Appomattox County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Arlington County is an urban county of about 203,000 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. [1] Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July...
Augusta County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Bath County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Bedford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. ...
Bland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. ...
Botetourt County, Virginia, from 1895 state map Botetourt County iis a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Brunswick County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Buchanan County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Buckingham County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Campbell County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Caroline County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Carroll County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1619 Seat Charles City Area - Total - Water 529 km² (204 mi²) 56 km² (21 mi²) 10. ...
Charlotte County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Chesterfield County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1836 Seat Berryville Area - Total - Water 462 km² (178 mi²) 4 km² (2 mi²) 0. ...
Craig County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Culpeper County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Dickenson County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Dinwiddie County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Essex County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia. ...
Fairfax County is a county in Northern Virginia, in the United States. ...
Fauquier County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Floyd County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Fluvanna County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1743 Seat Winchester Area - Total - Water 1,076 km² (416 mi²) 3 km² (1 mi²) 0. ...
Giles County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Gloucester County is an historical Chesapeake county located on the Middle Peninsula of the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1727 Seat Goochland Area - Total - Water 751 km² (290 mi²) 14 km² (6 mi²) 1. ...
Grayson County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Greene County is a county in central Virginia in the eastern United States. ...
Greensville County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1752 Seat Halifax Area - Total - Water 2,149 km² (830 mi²) 27 km² (10 mi²) 1. ...
Hanover County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Henrico County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Henry County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Highland County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Isle of Wight County is a county located in the South Hampton Roads region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
James City County, Virginia as shown on 1895 map James City County (formally, the County of James City) is a county located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
King and Queen County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1720 Seat King George Area - Total - Water 486 km² (188 mi²) 20 km² (8 mi²) 4. ...
King William County is a county located on the Middle Peninsula in the state of Virginia. ...
Lancaster County is a county located on the Northern Neck in the state of Virginia. ...
Lee County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Loudoun County (pronounced LOUD-un; IPA: ) is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. ...
Louisa County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1746 Seat Lunenburg Area - Total - Water 1,120 km² (432 mi²) 2 km² (1 mi²) 0. ...
Madison County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Mathews County is a county located on the Middle Peninsula in the state of Virginia. ...
Mecklenburg County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Middlesex County is a county located on the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia. ...
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Nelson County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
New Kent County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Northampton County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Northumberland County is a county located on the Northern Neck in the U.S. state of Virginia. ...
Nottoway County is a county located in the state of Virginia, USA. As of 2000, the population is 15,725. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1734 Seat Orange Area - Total - Water 889 km² (343 mi²) 4 km² (2 mi²) 0. ...
Page County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1791 Seat Stuart Area - Total - Water 1,258 km² (486 mi²) 7 km² (3 mi²) 0. ...
Pittsylvania County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Powhatan County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Prince Edward County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed Seat Prince George Area - Total - Water 730 km² (282 mi²) 42 km² (16 mi²) 5. ...
Prince William County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Pulaski County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Rappahannock County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Richmond County is a county located on the Northern Neck in the state of Virginia. ...
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Rockbridge County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1778 Seat Harrisonburg Area - Total - Water 2,210 km² (853 mi²) 6 km² (2 mi²) 0. ...
Russell County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Scott County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Shenandoah County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1832 Seat Marion Area - Total - Water 1,171 km² (452 mi²) 1 km² (0 mi²) 0. ...
Southampton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Spotsylvania County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Stafford County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Surry County is a county located in the South Hampton Roads region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. ...
Sussex County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed December 20, 1799 Seat Tazewell Area - Total - Water 1,347 km² (520 mi²) 0 km² (0 mi²) 0. ...
Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...
Washington County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Westmoreland County is a county located in the Northern Neck of the state of Virginia. ...
Wise County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1790 Seat Wytheville Area - Total - Water 1,200 km² (463 mi²) 4 km² (1 mi²) 0. ...
Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1634 Seat Yorktown Area - Total - Water 558 km² (216 mi²) 285 km² (110 mi²) 50. ...
| | Cities | Alexandria | Bedford | Bristol | Buena Vista | Charlottesville | Chesapeake | Colonial Heights | Covington | Danville | Emporia | Fairfax | Falls Church | Franklin | Fredericksburg | Galax | Hampton | Harrisonburg | Hopewell | Lexington | Lynchburg | Manassas | Manassas Park | Martinsville | Newport News | Norfolk | Norton | Petersburg | Poquoson | Portsmouth | Radford | Richmond | Roanoke | Salem | Staunton | Suffolk | Virginia Beach | Waynesboro | Williamsburg | Winchester An independent city is a city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Founded 1749 Government - Mayor William D. Euille Area - Total 15. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Mayor E. Thomas Messier Area - City 17. ...
Motto: A Good Place to Live Nickname: The Birthplace of Country Music Map Political Statistics County Independent city Mayor To Be Determined Geographic Statistics Area - Total - Land - Water 34. ...
Buena Vista, Virginia 6002 happy citizens and 3 old grouches Buena Vista, pronounced [ˌbjunəˈvɪstə] by locals, despite the correct Spanish pronunciation of [bwenaˈßista], is an independent city located within the confines of Rockbridge County in the state of Virginia. ...
Charlottesville is an independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom. ...
Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Founded 1963 Government - Mayor Dalton S. Edge Area - City 350. ...
Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Incorporated 1948 Government - Mayor John T. Wood Area - City 7. ...
Covington is an independent city within the confines of Alleghany County in the state of Virginia. ...
Nickname: River City, City of Churches Motto: A World Class Organization Country United States State Virginia County Independent City - Mayor R. Wayne Williams, Jr. ...
Emporia is an independent city located within the confines of Greensville County in Virginia. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Founded 1805 Government - Mayor Robert Lederer Area - City 6. ...
Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Founded 1875 Government - Mayor Robin Gardner Area - City 2. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Incorporated March, 1876 Government - Mayor James P. Councill Area - City 8. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City* Founded 1728 Incorporated 1781 Government - Mayor Thomas Tomzak Area - City 10. ...
Galax is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Motto: Americas First Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: County Independent City Mayor Ross Kearney II Area - City 352. ...
Nickname: Location in Virginia Coordinates: , County Independent City Founded 1737 Government - Mayor Rodney Eagle[1] Area - City 45. ...
Waterfront at City Point, Virginia (now Hopewell) in 1865 Hopewell is an independent city in the state of Virginia. ...
Lexington is an independent city within the confines of Rockbridge County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Lynchburg is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Manassas redirects here. ...
Manassas Park is a city in Virginia. ...
Martinsville is an independent city located within the confines of Henry County, Virginia. ...
Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Incorporated 1896 Government - Mayor Joe Frank Area - City 119. ...
Motto: Crescas (Latin for, Thou shalt grow. ...
Norton is an independent city within the confines of Wise County in the state of Virginia. ...
Nickname: Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Founded December 17, 1748 Government - Mayor Annie M. Mickens Area - City 23. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Founded 1631 Government - Mayor Gordon Heisel, Jr. ...
Map Political Statistics Founded 1752 County Independent city Mayor Dr. James W. Holley III Geographic Statistics Area - Total - Land - Water 120. ...
Radford is an independent city located in Virginia. ...
Nickname: Motto: Sic dic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area - City 62. ...
Nickname: Location in Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Government - Mayor Nelson Harris Area - City 43 sq mi (111. ...
Salem is an independent city located in Virginia, bordered by the city of Roanoke and Roanoke County. ...
West Beverley Street in downtown Staunton Staunton (IPA: or STAN-tehn or STANT-en) is an independent city within the confines of Augusta County in the commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Founded 1742 Government - Mayor Linda T. Johnson Area - City 429. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Downtown Waynesboro showing Main Street, as well as the scar on the mountain prior to being seeded. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Founded 1802 Government - Mayor Elizabeth Minor Area - City 9. ...
| | Towns | Abingdon | Ashland | Blacksburg | Bluefield | Dublin | Christiansburg | Culpeper | Front Royal | Herndon | Leesburg | Marion | Orange | Pulaski | Richlands | Warrenton | Wise | Wytheville | Vienna This is a complete list of towns in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. ...
Motto: Honor Pro Antiquis, Fides Pro Futuris Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States State Virginia County Washington Founded 1776 Government - Mayor Lois Humphreys Area - City 8. ...
Ashland is a town located in Hanover County, Virginia. ...
Blacksburgs location within Virgina Virginias location within the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Montgomery Founded 1798 Government - Mayor Ron Rordam Area - Town 19. ...
Nickname: Virginia’s Tallest Town Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Tazewell Government - Mayor James Jones Area - City 7. ...
Dublin is a town located in Pulaski County, Virginia. ...
Motto: Progressive Small Town Living at its Best Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Montgomery Incorporated November 10, 1792 Mayor Richard Ballengee Area - City 36. ...
Culpeper is an incorporated town in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. ...
Front Royal is a town in Warren County, Virginia, United States. ...
Coordinates: , State Virginia County Fairfax County, Virginia Settled 1858 Area - City 4. ...
Leesburg is a historic town and is the county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America. ...
Marion is a town in Smyth County, Virginia, United States. ...
Orange is a town located in Orange County, Virginia. ...
Pulaski is a town located in Pulaski County, Virginia. ...
Richlands is a town located in Tazewell County, Virginia. ...
Street scene, Warrenton, Virginia, ca. ...
Wise is a town located in Wise County, Virginia. ...
Wytheville is a town located in Wythe County, Virginia. ...
Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. ...
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