This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Virginia. All books in the It's My State! ® series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.
The recipes are organized by region --ÊHampton Roads and the Chesapeake Bay area,ÊRichmond and Southern Virginia, Central Virginia and Wine Country, the Capital Region and Northern Virginia, and the Shenandoah Valley and Western Virginia ...
"Here you will find not only some of Virginia's largest trees, including a newly discovered national champion overcup oak in Isle of Wight County, but also some of the state's oldest trees, including baldcypress trees over 800 years old in ...
Natural Virginia divides the state into three regions: the Tidewater, Piedmont, and the Western mountains and valleys.
Using contemporary photographs, historical information, maps, and excerpts of interviews with longtime residents of these communities, the book documents the present conditions, recalls past boom times, and explains the role of each ...
... 187 Logan County , 48 , 120 , 140 , 151 , 157 , 188 , 189 , 228 Lomax , Lunsford , 20 Loring , Gen. ... William , 41 McKell , Thomas G. , 191 McKinley , William , 50 , 51 Maclin , Edward S. , 249 McManus , Lewis , 299 McMechen ...
Images of America: Remembering Virginia's Confederates explores the Confederate military and government service of a wide array of Virginia residents, ranging from the most prominent generals, politicians, and spies to little-known enlisted ...
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great fiction -- but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved.
Images of America: West Virginia National Guard covers the time span between 1898 and 1919. This period of guard history was chaotic, to say the least, and was typified by turbulent social, economic, and political unrest.
"A solid, thought-provoking study of a far more complex world than historians of seventeenth-century Virginia have yet offered."--"Journal of Southern History"
... and Virginia-Ann Botts. 32. John Minor Botts, born September 16, 1802, in Dumfries, Prince William County, died January 7, 1869 ; congressman, lawyer, author ; married Mary- Whiting, daughter of Archibald and Mary (Whiting) Blair.