February is Black History Month — but where did the concept come from? The answer is right here in Central Virginia.

The 1800s saw the Pound Sterling to US Dollar (GBPUSD) exchange rate by and large maintain a rate of around $5 to every £1 with the notable deviations from the rate seen to be aligned with ...

Learn the basics you'll need to get started on your own research, from drawing up your family tree to exploring the archives. If you're tackling archives for the first time in a search for your ...

The Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse got its yearly batch of logbooks back from Kofile, a company in North Carolina that cleans paper records. "Each year, we apply through this circuit court ...

Lord Cornwallis overcame three lines of Patriots, including thousands of Virginians, on the northern North Carolina ...

Some more background here. Part of the road we will envision was Route 8. Much of the road we know today as Route 23 was ...

Rosencrans and the Union troops were led to the summit by a young man, 22-year-old David Hart, whose father owned the farm ...

Lexington, Virginia, is more than just a dot on the map. It’s a living, breathing testament to the charm of small-town ...

Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...

Welcome to Lexington, Virginia, where the past and present dance a delightful two-step. Nestled in the Shenandoah Valley, ...