Anyone know anything about Modern History of Virginia?
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The state of Virginia,was named after a lady named Virginia. Virginia orginated in the state of New York.
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GEN. Stormin "Norman Schwarzkopf"! Or any of the veterans you can interview at your local V.A Center or retirement home. They are all historically significant, and have fascinating stories to tell :) Good luck
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Link below is the source of this information:\n\nSmith's firm leadership (he was soon elected president of the colony) held the colonists together and narrowly avoided extinction. Wounded by an explosion of gunpowder, Smith sailed to England in late 1609 to recover. He never returned to Virginia.\n\nThe entire article is really very interesting.
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No i love Virginia fuck those laws they dont aplly to me lol but anyways its a very versetile place theres southern country living parts like Montross,Farhnam,Tappahanock where CHRIS BROWN LIVES,those beautiful places to raise a family then there are plenty of suburbs like Fredericksburg and stafford that are pretty much picture perfect towns Then you have the spots that look like conneticut that are dated back to the 1800s like dowtown Fredericksburg. Then you have very urban places like Alexandria and were only minutes from urban dc. And Richmond with has some of the most beautiful Italian Archetecture with the cathedrals,then you have the blue ridge area where its all beautiful moutains,Then you have great beach spots like Virginia beach one of the best party spots on the east coast, and colonial beach. Whether your lookinf for a Country,urban,part,beachy,farm living,moutainliving,suburbs,European influencd,or New england influenced area you got it.
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wut bay was it? and which part?\nhe might be in virginia\nlol
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Washington DC area- I think Virginia
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St. Lô, once a part of the grand designs of the French rulers Charlemagne and Napoleon, has a powerful and direct link 20th-century America, and especially to Western Virginia. The medieval Norman town, approximately 175 miles west of Paris, was the scene of a violent, decisive battle between American GIs and the entrenched German forces shortly after the Allied landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The American-led air force and ground troops of the 29th Division's 116th Infantry Regiment (which comprised many Virginians) liberated St. Lô on July 19, 1944.\n\nThe campaign left 95 percent of the town demolished, including much of the gorgeous Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame. St. Lô suffered more than any community in Normandy during WWII, but its people truly love Americans, whom they regard as their liberators.\n\nToday, St. Lô is a thriving town of 25,000 in which the past is very much present. The mainly reconstructed city lies on a rocky hill, within and around the remains of the ancient ramparts that Charlemagne began in the ninth century. There, two medieval towers provide a panoramic view of the Vire Valley and its river, which has been vital to St. Lô's economic history. Nearby, Le Haras National, France's premier horse farm, was established by Napoleon in 1806.\n\nLa Madeleine, a restored 13th-century chapel, houses a public exhibit about the events of 1944. The town also has a touching monument to Major Thomas Howie, head of the 3rd Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment, who was killed during the Allies' final assault on the town.\n\nProgressive St. Lô, the administrative seat of the County of La Manche, has set its sights on becoming a university town. It supports two business colleges, the Ecole de Gestion et de Commerce and the Ecole de Ventes. Normandy's rich soil has ensured St. Lô's prominence as an agricultural center as well. And dairy farms and apple orchards flourish there. The province's creamy cheeses and fiery apple brandy, Calvados, are celebrated worldwide, and the lush, pastoral countryside attracts tourists from all corners of the globe. Short distances from St. Lô are Mont Saint Michel, Monet's garden at Giverny and the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha Beach, further memorialized in Steven Spielberg's 1998 film, “Saving Private Ryan.”\n\n\n\nChapter 1\nTHE JULY OFFENSIVE\n\nST-LO, capital of the department of Manche, can be used as one symbol for First U. S. Army's victory in a most difficult and bloody phase of the Campaign of Normandy: the "Battle of the Hedgerows," during the first three weeks of July I944. Other names figure in this battle. First Army soldiers will remember la Haye-du-Puits, Periers, Hill 192, like St-Lo, from a background of stubborn struggle for gains too often measured in terms of a few hundred yards, or of two or three fields, conquered against a bitterly resisting enemy.\n\nMuch more was at stake in the Battle of the Hedgerows than possession of a communications center on the Vire River. In June, First Army and British Second Army had won their beachheads and had captured Cherbourg (26 June). Supplies and reinforcements were building up for a powerful offensive, designed to break out of the Normandy pocket and scheduled to be mounted in the First Army zone. But more room and better jump-off positions for the crucial offensive were needed before this blow could be delivered. The attack that began in early July was planned to gain this ground, on a front of 25 miles. Four corps, employing ultimately 12 divisions, were involved in the effort. All these units faced similar problems of advance, and all contributed to the measure of success achieved. Therefore, in the larger tactical sense it would be unfair to identify the Battle of the Hedgerows with St-Lo and later military studies, treating the Campaign of Normandy in different scope, will give the operation in truer proportions. Here, on
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Sounds like an educator question. ;) \n\nA GREAT page on this subject is found at\n\nhttp://apgar.net/virginia/\n\nwith both the details you ASK, as well as the *big picture* answer. :)
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There is one in Richmond, right on 40 near I-70\n\nTHey have a weath of information and walking trails that are clearly marked with numbers to match the informational papers.\n\nHope this helps
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go to www.West Virginia .com and it will tell you all the info you need to know about this state.
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try doing a search on the antebellum south I was researching Mississippi and found barbeque postcards which were postcards of a lynching victim and there were links to archived sites that had actual interviews from slaves. former slaves and witnesses during that era maybe you'll be able to locate some archived financial information as well there was also a link to sites that claimed to record accurate not pop culture history, sorry I don't remember the sites I just remember how I got there
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http://www.jumpthegun.com/cyclone/pictures/pictures.htm\n\nor if you are looking for Virginia ?\n\nhttp://www.jmhs64viennava.org/
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ELIZABETH VAN LEW \n1818-1900(?) \n\n       The first Union flag to wave over Richmond in four years was raised in 1865 by this famous and effective Union spy. Born into a prominent Richmond family, Elizabeth Van Lew returned from her schooling in Philadelphia as an adamant abolitionist determined to fight slavery in the bastion of the South. "Slave power," she wrote in her diary, "is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic." Outspoken and rebellious, she appeared to her neighbors to be more than a little eccentric and soon became known as "Crazy Bet." \n       After Virginia seceded and Fort Sumter fell, she used her reputation for innocuous idiosyncracy as a shield behind which her shrewd and resourceful mind devised schemes to abet the Union cause from within Richmond. Her first target was the Confederate Libby Prison, which imprisoned Union captives. Pretending to make a merely humanitarian gesture, Van Lew brought baskets of food, medicine, and books to the prisoners. What she brought out would have shocked the guards she learned to charm and deceive. \n       Not only did Van Lew help some prisoners escape, she also gleaned valuable information from various sources inside the prison. Newly arrived Union prisoners secretly recounted the strength and dispositions of Confederate troops they had seen on their way from the front to Richmond. Of even more use was information carelessly conveyed to the "harmless Crazy Bet" by Confederate guards and by the prison's Confederate commandant, Lieutenant David H.Todd (Mary Todd Lincoln's half-brother). \n       She even managed to penetrate the home of President Jefferson Davis by convincing one of her former servants to secure a position in the Davis household staff. At first, Van Lew simply mailed the information she retrieved in letters posted to Federal authorities. As her work continued, her methods grew more sophisticated. She devised a code involving words and letters that prisoners would underline in the books she lent them. \n       Van Lew also sent her household servants--though she had freed the family's slaves, many of them chose to stay with her--northward carrying baskets of farm produce. Each basket held some eggs, one of which contained encoded messages in place of its natural contents. She sent her information directly to Benjamin Butler as well as to Grant through an elaborate courier system. It was so fast and effective that General Grant often received flowers still fresh from his spy's large garden. Grant would later say of her efforts, "You have sent me the most valuable information received from Richmond during the war."\n       After the war, President Grant rewarded Van Lew with a job as postmistress of Richmond, which she held from 1869 to 1877. Although revered in the North, she was, needless to say, ostracized by her Richmond neighbors. "No one will walk with us on the street," she wrote, "no one will go with us anywhere; and it grows worse and worse as the years roll on." Failing to be reappointed postmistress under Rutherford B. Hayes, she lived on a annuity from the family of a Union soldier she bad helped in Libby Prison. She died in Richmond, probably in 1900.
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Wow! Shocking dreams, I can understand why you would want to investigate further.\n\nHaving done my fair share of research on the net, I honestly think this type of inquiry is more suited to the local and state Historical Society, newspaper articles (most likely on microfiche) and perhaps trying to identify folks who have lived in the area for a long time.\n\nI'd love to suggest easy online sources, but think this is a job for some good old fashioned sluething.\n\nYou can start here:\n\nColorado Historical Society\nhttp://www.coloradohistory.org/\n\nColorado History Museum\n1300 Broadway\nDenver, Colorado 80203\n303-866-3682\n\nDenver Public Library\nhttp://www.denverlibrary.org/\n\n10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. (on Broadway between 13th & 14th Avenues)\nDenver, Colorado 80204\n720-865-1821\nTDD 720-865-1825\n\nDenver Post\nhttp://www.denverpost.com/\n\nRocky Mountain News\nhttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/
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You could try the Virginia Employent Commision's website. http://www.alex.vec.virginia.gov/
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Try contacting the local historical society.
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Your local Board of Elections should help.\nAlso the State Board of Elections:\nhttp://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/Cidate_Information/Index.html