Billy Flora was said to have reported for the War of 1812 carrying the same musket he used in the Revolutionary War. ... He was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth and escaped capture at ...

My parents and I came to Burke in 1961 when I was two years old and I grew up here. My mom still lives in our old home place and has for over 63 years, and wanted me to speak on her behalf.

Pvt. Richard L. Grubbs of Louisa County and his wife, Lucy Duval Grubbs, married shortly before he left to fight in France in World War I. The couple’s only photograph together was taken on ...

MONTVALE — The Bedford County Militia held its second annual muster on Saturday, inviting new members to join its ranks.

Amazon is proposing a third data center campus in Louisa County, Virginia, for use by Amazon Web Services (AWS). As reported by local newsletter Engage Louisa, the campus would be located in Louisa ...

Visitors to the Maidstone Bicentennial Museum on the weekend stepped back in time to 1812, when voyageurs cleaned deer skins while Indigenous warriors and British solders fended off American invaders.

President Donald Trump on Monday granted an unconditional pardon to a Virginia sheriff who had been convicted of federal bribery charges and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

U.S. PRESIDENTS (1732–1799); WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA. George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known ...

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest electricity producer, projected in a 2024 report that the state’s overall power demand will double by 2039. Ed Baine, a senior Dominion Energy executive, termed ...

While most of the fighting took place outside Virginia, some 1,800 Virginians — mostly from the frontier of Southwest Virginia — marched off westward to that war rather than eastward to fight the ...

He is buried at Point Pleasant, W.Va., near the site of the battle in October 1774, where the Virginia militia defeated Cornstalk’s men. Three years later he and several other Shawnee men were killed ...

While out-migration is slowing in Fairfax County, it’s not in Virginia ... the fast-growing places since 2020 are now New Kent County (16.8%), Goochland County (11.2%) and Louisa County (10.2% ...