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- Dan River, Virginia

- The Dan River, near Danville, Virginia.
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- Montgomery County, Virginia

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- We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region
- Readings and lesson plans exploring the historical and ongoing challenges faced by the American Indians of the Chesapeake Bay region, since the time of their first contact with Europeans in the early 1600s.
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- Bull Mountain, Virginia

- Bull Mountain, in Patrick County, Virginia, seen from a distance.
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- Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression
- Images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.
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- Broadside listing supplies for colonists, 1622

- This document from 1622 lists recommended supplies that colonists from England should take with them to the Virginia colony.
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- 1924 Virginia Health Bulletin

- Virginia Health Bulletin announcing the Racial Integrity Act, 1924. The act, administered by Virginia state official Walter Plecker, sought to prevent interracial marriage, and made it illegal for people to identify their race as Indian. The full text of the...
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- 1640 map of southern Virginia and eastern Florida

- The title of this 1640 map, Virginiæ partis australis, et Floridæ partis orientalis, translates to "Virginia parts south and Florida parts east." At the time, Virginia included all the British land along the east coast, so the map covers the...
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- Virginia Dare statue

- This statue, created by Maria Louisa Lander in 1859, depicts Lander's vision of Virginia Dare as an adult. Of course, because Virginia Dare was one of the vanished members of the Lost Colony, nobody knows what she looked like as an adult—or whether she...
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- Burned houses in Virginia, Civil War

- In Hampton, Virginia, brick chimneys remain where houses have been burned by Union soldiers during the Civil War.
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- John Smith's map of Virginia

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- Potomac River, Virginia

- Photograph of the Potomac River, from Mt. Vernon, Virginia.
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- Meet the Virginia Reel
- Students will learn to dance the Virginia Reel.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Dance Arts Education)
- By Jo James.
- Mrs. Cornelia Neal
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.11
- NEAL, MRS. CORNELIA, (colored), age 66, husband 70; two children and four grandchildren living with her. INCOME: They raise some of their food and a little tobacco. HOME CONDITIONS: The house has eight rooms and there are 62 acres of land. they own 2 mules,...
- Letter of March 31, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.3
- Taylorsville, N.C., March 31, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson Richmond, Virginia Dear Mr. Bronson: I am deeply grateful to you and to all others who have made it possible for us to carry on this work, The Stringing of Tobacco Bags, in our county. It is our greatest...
- A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye Hills, 1651

- John Farrer's 1651 map of Virginia shows the Pacific Ocean just beyond the Appalachian mountains. (Note that west is at the top of this map.) Farrer's conception of the continent may have been influenced by the idea that a "Sea of Verrazano" split North America...
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- Cumberland Landing, Virginia, 1862

- View of Civil War encampment at Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Photograph taken from a hill looking down on the encampment.
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- 1860 county map of North Carolina and southern Virginia
- This 1860 map of North Carolina and southern Virginia clearly shows the county borders at the time. The map also depicts major roads and towns.
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- Mrs. Leacey Royal
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.4
- MRS. LEACEY ROYAL, aged 27, married and has 4 children. Husband is 29. They reside in Reddies River, N.C. INCOME: Husband works on P.W.A. sixteen days a month and gets $24. They have no other income. EXPENSES: They use everything they make for food. Taxes...
- Pamunkey tribute to Virginia governor, circa 1928

- Pamunkey presentation of annual tribute to the Governor of Virginia, circa 1928. Pictured from left to right are Walter Bradby, Theodora Dennis Cook, Chief George Major Cook, Governor Harry Byrd, Pocahontas Cook, Willy Bradby, James Bradby, and Duckie Page....
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