The best work unfolding at such sites today is led by groups like the Montpelier Descendants Committee, which fought for decades to gain a stake in the governance of the Virginia plantation site.

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 ...

Fred Miller, an Air Force veteran, bought a home in southern Virginia while unaware of its ... he purchased in May 2020 had been a 1,300-acre plantation known as Sharswood in the 1800s.

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 step ...

Archaeology at a 17th-Century Trading Plantation Site in the City of Hampton, Virginia Supported by: Virginia Department of Transportation and The City of Hampton The William & Mary Center for ...

An Antebellum Slave Quarter Site Adapted for Military Use during the Civil War at Kingsmill Plantation, James City County, Virginia Archaeological investigations of a site at Kingsmill Resort—best ...

In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...

Swimming in the Potomac River and the many creeks on the plantation provided some degree of relief from the oppressive heat and humidity of the Virginia summer. In the late summer of 1778 ...