Virginia is famous as the boyhood home of George Washington. Visitors often come here to visit the Ferry farm where our first president chopped down that infamous cherry tree. The locals take pride in ...

For the US Dollar, the US Civil war (1861 – 1875) saw the Dollar depreciate ... fact when at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced a 30% devaluation for the ...

William Dollarson was a formerly enslaved person who escaped from bondage and became a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Detroit.

Vienna was the big winner in Virginia. The ranking found that the median household ... both built in 1859, still stand. During the Civil War, both sides held the town as a camping ground, and the ...

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites ...

Governor Glenn Youngkin announced today that more than $3.9 million in grant funding will be allocated to protect 621 acres ...

Jefferson County, in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, experienced tremendous upheaval from the Civil War in and around ...

The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts ...

On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, we present this commemorative issue featuring Atlantic stories by Mark Twain, ...

STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (7News) — It may feel like deja vu, a Virginia prisoner escaping custody from a correctional officer while being treated at a hospital... but not quite. Stafford County ...