When Air Force veteran Fred Miller bought a home in southern Virginia two years ago, he had no idea of the tragic link his family already shared with the property. In a 60 Minutes interview that aired ...

The Woodlawn plantation in Northern Virginia has long been one of those iconic sites of American history. Once part of a massive Mount Vernon property, it was home to George Washington’s ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A lovingly preserved vestige of Virginia’s plantation past is up for sale, offering a centuries-old brick-and-mortar link to the first European settlers. Carter’s Grove will ...

In recent years, historic plantations in Virginia have worked to refocus attention on people who were enslaved. Over the past month, Belle Grove Plantation near Winchester found a special way to do ...

JAMES CITY — A proposed housing development has landed Kingsmill on the James’ namesake historical site on Preservation Virginia’s 2025 list of Most Endangered Historic Places. Escalante Golf, owner ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The call that beckoned me back to my earliest roots on American soil, wasn’t even about my roots at all. It was about a job at 8News. I moved to Richmond, excited about the ...

DANVILLE, Va. — A decision to move the remains of hundreds African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of emotions among ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- There's a lot to see and do at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts including an opportunity to catch the latest exhibition "Dawoud Bey: Elegy." “He's an extraordinary photographer," said ...

DANVILLE — A decision to move the remains of hundreds of African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of emotions among ...

Smithfield Plantation is at the heart of Virginia Tech. It is the sole institution that evolved into what we now know as Virginia Tech. When we visit the historical narrative that conjoins the two ...