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The American gentry were wealthy landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial South. Historians generally use the term "gentry" to refer to the moneyed planter class in the American South prior to the American Revolution. Typically, large scale landowners rented out farms to white tenant farmers. North of Maryland, there were few large comparable rural estates, except in the ...
This project is to document interments in the Lewis Kenneth Knight Family Cemetery, Stafford County, Virginia, USA. Find A Grave It is accessible from the end of Embrey Mill Road (Route #733.) It is now located within the Embrey Mills development.
The Arlington National Cemetery project focuses on one of the world's most famous military cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Our project goals are to 1) build trees for every individual buried at the cemetery and 2) provide information for people learning how to research Arlington ancestors.==About Arlington==Since its establishment on June 28, 1864,...
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is part of Northern Virginia and borders both the city of Alexandria and Arlington County and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. The county is predominantly suburban in character with some urban and rural pockets. It the most populous jurisdiction in Virgini...
Official Web Site =This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county.
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia to forces of the Union Army ( Army of the Potomac , Army of the James and Army of the Shenandoah) under the overall command of Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant , marking the effective end of t...
This project is part of the Commonwealth of VIrginia Portal. = Unitied States Area Communities Offical State Website Wikipedia This project is an umbrella project for all of the local jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia was initially composed of only four shires. Each shire, and later each county was composed of one or more parishes because...
This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this City of Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this city.= Wikipedia = Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United StatesLocated on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is inc...
Official Web Site This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. County formation Augusta County formed from Orange County in 1738 Botetourt County was formed from Augusta in 1769; Fincastle County created in 1772 from Botetourt abolished in 1776 later divide...
Loudoun County was established in 1757 from Fairfax County. The county is named for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun and governor general of Virginia from 1756 to 1759. Western settlement began in the 1720s and 1730s with Quakers, Scots-Irish, Germans and others moving south from Pennsylvania and Maryland, and also by English and enslaved Africans moving upriver from Tidewater. By the tim...
Wikipedia =Culpeper National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the town of Culpeper, in Culpeper County, Virginia. Find a Grave
At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of future Culpeper County were a Siouan-speaking sub-group of the Manahoac tribe called the Tegninateo. Culpeper County was established in 1749, with territory partitioned from Orange County. The county is named for Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, colonial governor of Virginia from 1677 to 1683. In May 1749, the first Culpeper Court con...
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before they surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States Arm...
The Battle of Appomattox Station was fought between a Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of the James, Army of the Shenandoah) cavalry division under the command of Brigadier General (Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia artillery units commanded by Brigadier General Lindsay Walker with support from some dismounted cavalrymen, artillerymen a...
Settlement of the county began in 1727, when Adam Miller (Mueller) staked out a claim on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County. On a trip through eastern Virginia, the German-born Miller had heard reports about a lush valley to the west which had been discovered by Governor Alexander Spotswood's legendary Knights of the Golden ...
Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Also known as Pleasant Valley Jardines de Recuerdos Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery Lignum, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA: Note: African-American Cemetery
Saint Stevens Baptist Church Cemetery Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA: Founded in 1847 with 97 members, by 1860 the membership of St. Stevens had almost doubled in size to 190 members. A thriving church in 1863, it was destroyed in a fire by Civil War soldiers. The current sanctuary was built in 1990. Note: African-American Cemtery
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the national capital. Arlington County is coextensive with the U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the eighth-most populous county in the Washi...
Fauquier County was established on May 1, 1759, from Prince William County. It is named for Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time, who won the land in a poker game, according to legend. American Civil War battles in Fauquier County included (in order) the First Battle of Rappahannock Station, the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, the Battle of Kelly's Ford, the Battle of Aldi...
The term "Ancient Planter" is applied to those persons who arrived in Virginia before 1616, remained for a period of three years, and paid their passage. They received the first patents of land in the new world as authorized by Sir Thomas Dale in 1618 for their personal adventure. Sub-projects Jordan Family Reynolds Family Primary source Wikipedia: Additional useful sites -- ...
This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. Official Web Site The Senedos, possibly an Iroquoian group, are thought to have occupied the area at one time, until they were said to have been slaughtered by the Catawba in the latter 17th century. The name of the Va...
Wikipedia University of Virginia The University of Virginia (often abbreviated as UVA, UVa, or Virginia) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was conceived and designed by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and established in 1819. UVA's initial Board of Visitors included former Presidents of the United States Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Jame...
Wikipedia =Hollins University is a four-year private institution of higher education located on a 475-acre (1.92 km2) campus on the border of Roanoke and Botetourt counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States.Hollins has s...
Wikipedia The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located in the city of Richmond, Virginia, with small portions of the campus extending into surrounding Henrico County. U of R is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the...