VIRGINIA

Around the World July/August 2024

VIRGINIA

Around the World July/August 2024

VIRGINIA

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(Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association)

Letter from Virginia September 1, 2011

American Refugees

Thousands of escaped slaves made a new life in one of the world's most unwelcoming places—the Great Dismal Swamp, full of sink holes, thorns, snakes, bears, and bugs—for a chance at self-determination

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(Courtesy Dan Sayers)

Digs & Discoveries September 1, 2011

Mount Vernon's New Old Garden

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Around the World March 1, 2011

VIRGINIA

An encrypted message in a bottle dating to the Civil War has been removed and deciphered by codebreakers.

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(Photo: Alan Thompson; Courtesy Museum of the Confederacy)

Features January 1, 2011

1608 Church - Jamestown, Virginia

Archaeologists searching for a men's barracks at Jamestown, Virginia, site of the first permanent English colony in the New World, have found instead the remains of the earliest Protestant church in North America.

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