The state historical marker "Apprentice School" will be dedicated during a ceremony at The Apprentice School's gymnasium. The Apprentice School is located at 3101 Washington Ave., in Newport News. The marker recalls that the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, founded in 1886, had an informal apprentice training program in place by the 1890s […]

The marker "Donald Robertson's School" will be dedicated at 10:30 a.m. at the marker's location at the intersection of Route 721 (Newtown Road) and Route 660 (Sorghum Road).  

The "John J. Wright" historical marker to be dedicated highlights the 20th-century history of secondary public school education for African American students in Spotsylvania County and John J. Wright High School. Speakers during the ceremony will include John Hennessy, chief historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park; Dr. Scott Baker, Superintendent, Spotsylvania County Schools; […]

Washington Afro-American headlines Morgan v. Virginia decision. This marker will be dedicated at its location at 2425 Hayes Road in Gloucester County. Speakers at the event will include Robin Washington, producer of the 1995 PBS documentary “You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow”; Morgan’s granddaughter, Shoshanna Bacquie Walden; and Jim Hare, of the Department of […]

First Baptist Church, Petersburg. (DHR) The public dedication and unveiling ceremony for the marker begins at 11 a.m., Saturday, February 8, in the church sanctuary and then the sign will be unveiled at its location on the south side of the church in a parking lot at 236 Harrison Street, Petersburg. Speakers at the event […]

This marker will be dedicated on February 15. Time and place will be announced when available. Here is the text of the marker: Skirmish at James’s Plantation British forces under Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold raided Richmond early in Jan. 1781 and established a base in Portsmouth later that month, seeking to control the Tidewater region. […]

This marker will be dedicated on Feb. 17.  Time and place of dedication will be announced when that information is available.   Mason Locke Weems and George Washington Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825), minister, bookseller, and writer, owned a half-acre lot here from 1798 until 1802. Weems published the first edition of his most influential work, […]

A state historical marker issued by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources will be dedicated tthat recalls the founding of the Reconstruction-era Little Zion Baptist Church, a historically African American church in Orange County. The ceremony, part of the church’s 150th anniversary celebration, is open to the public. Attendees must observe state mandates for covid […]

Two state historical markers issued by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources will be dedicated in Smyth County that highlight Abijah Thomas’s 17-room Octagonal House, a highly-refined example of such architecture, and the Village of Holston Mills, which arose around a textile operation Thomas co-founded about 1860 that produced cloth for Confederate soldiers’ uniforms. The […]