Wheeling was the Capital of Virginia

Sic Semper Tyrannis -- Liberty and Union

During the Civil War, the capital of Virginia was the city of Wheeling in the northern panhandle of what is now West Virginia.

Beginning of the Territory of Columbia

The south corner marker of the District of Columbia

Hupp House

The Frontier Fort in Strasburg, Virginia
 

Three Flags over Brown's Hill

The Western End of the Mason-Dixon Survey

Aquia Sandstone

 

The Public Quarry at Government Island, Stafford County, Virginia 

George Washington's Well

Fort Loudoun in Winchester, Virginia

Greenway Court

The home of Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, at White Post, Virginia

  

George Washington Was Born Here

George Washington's Birthplace, Wakefield, Pope's Creek, Oak Grove, Virginia

Antiques, Civil Rights, Civil War, and Religious Freedom

Four centuries at the Northeast Corner of Caroline and William Streets, Fredericksburg Virginia

R&R Antiques occupies the Woolworth building where sit-ins took place in 1960, and sits on the site of Weedon's Tavern where, in 1777, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and others met to launch the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom. In 1862, Union artillery from nearby Chatham destroyed the Bank of Virginia building on this corner.

Where the Potomac Begins

The Fairfax Stone near Thomas, West Virginia

Parson Weems

Mason Locke Weems

The first biographer of Washington and the origin of the cherry tree tale.

The Kidnapping of Pocahontas

on US 1, at Potomac Creek

Moncure Conway

 A Man Who Freed Himself ...

Mary the Mother of Washington

This monument on Washington Street in Fredericksburg, VA, was erected in 1893-94 by two women's organizations, The Fredericksburg Mary Washington Monument Association and the The National Mary Washington Memorial Association. It marks the grave of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother.

Dinosaur Land



Dinosaur Land -- Double Tollgate, Virginia