Multiple festivities are planned this weekend for the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette's tour of America, after helping the fledging nation take flight.

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a ...

Electrovaya likely could have had a better package of incentives for its Gigafactory elsewhere. But Chautauqua County had an ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

The tobacco pipe is a symbol synonymous with Virginia’s agricultural heritage and material culture. Decorative details on ...

In 1775, the first ever James River Batteau launched and carried goods and people with a unique ability to go up and down the river. Now, the batteau is back for the annual festival.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is holding a public archaeology day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Custis Square, located across from the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg on the corner of Nassau ...

From colonial towns to seaport villages, some of the oldest towns in the United States take you back in time to eras gone by.

(WRIC) — Virginia has an extensive history, including housing the first permanent English ... The origins of ham in the state ...

Some Jamestown history went up in flames in 2003 when the Potter House on West Main Street across from Jamestown Elementary ...

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture will kick off the nation’s 250th anniversary commemoration with the "Give Me Liberty ...

Researchers analysed microfossils inside the limestone of Jamestown's Knight's Tombstone to trace its origins in Europe.