The Winchester Medical College (WMC) building, currently located at 302 W. Boscawen Street, Winchester, Virginia, along with all its records, equipment... 86 KB (9,635 words) - 07:38, 29 April 2024 |
 | Nat Turner (category 19th-century executions of American people) skeleton being used as a medical specimen by Dr. H. U. Stephenson of Toana, Virginia. Stephenson acquired the skeleton from a son of Dr. S. B. Kellar; Dr... 34 KB (3,693 words) - 16:04, 18 April 2024 |
 | Henry Box Brown (redirect from The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia) 1897) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists... 27 KB (3,225 words) - 00:00, 9 April 2024 |
John Punch (slave) (category Year of death unknown) John Punch (born 1605) was an enslaved African who lived in the colony of Virginia. Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch attempted to escape... 30 KB (3,769 words) - 14:28, 17 April 2024 |
 | Anthony Johnson (colonist) (category Year of birth unknown) Legacy of Anthony Johnson: From Jamestown, VA to Somerset, MD, 1619–1995, Oneonta, NY: Sondhi Loimthongkul Center for Interdependence, Hartwick College, 1995... 21 KB (2,360 words) - 00:14, 19 April 2024 |
 | residence of the sole President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, from August 1861 until April 1865. It currently sits on the campus of Virginia... 11 KB (1,083 words) - 07:02, 27 February 2024 |
 | Nat Turner's Rebellion (category African-American history of Virginia) reports in North Carolina of slave "armies" on highways, burning and massacring the White inhabitants of Wilmington, North Carolina, and marching on the state... 42 KB (4,554 words) - 10:47, 18 April 2024 |
 | Great Dismal Swamp maroons (category African-American history of North Carolina) Landscape Study". Anthropology Summer Field Study. American University College of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012. Retrieved... 35 KB (3,332 words) - 01:45, 23 April 2024 |
Angela (enslaved woman) (category Year of birth unknown) one of the first enslaved Africans to be officially recorded in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. Angela's early life is little known, and her date of birth... 7 KB (743 words) - 00:11, 19 April 2024 |
 | John Brown Junior (category Family of John Brown (abolitionist)) body of his brother Watson. (See Burning of Winchester Medical College.) He was the guest of the Governor of Indiana for dinner. In 1883 he penned a lengthy... 29 KB (2,935 words) - 13:34, 24 April 2024 |
John Wayles (category American people of English descent) He is historically best known as the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Wayles married three times, with these... 21 KB (2,068 words) - 16:58, 22 March 2024 |
 | Gabriel's Rebellion (category 18th-century executions of American people) was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and... 31 KB (3,595 words) - 16:23, 20 April 2024 |
 | Booker T. Washington (redirect from List of books written by Booker T. Washington) black higher education. He expanded the college, enlisting students in construction of buildings. Work at the college was considered fundamental to students'... 98 KB (10,643 words) - 12:33, 30 April 2024 |
 | Olaudah Equiano (category Writers of captivity narratives) unveiled there on 11 October 2000 as part of Black History Month. Student musicians from Trinity College of Music played a fanfare composed by Professor... 52 KB (6,032 words) - 04:35, 26 April 2024 |
 | James Madison (redirect from 4th President of the United States of America) result of the war ended in a standoff, the quick succession of events at the end of the war, including the burning of the capital, the Battle of New Orleans... 144 KB (16,706 words) - 05:17, 25 April 2024 |
 | the Virginia House of Burgesses and later was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses. He was a founding trustee of the College of William and Mary.... 73 KB (7,226 words) - 14:28, 21 April 2024 |
 | James Monroe (redirect from 5th President of the United States of America) their houses along with burning their towns. Jackson also seized the Spanish territorial capital of Pensacola. With the capture of Pensacola, Jackson established... 120 KB (14,208 words) - 20:45, 4 April 2024 |
 | Elizabeth Key Grinstead (category American people of English descent) 1665) was one of the first Black people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win. Key won her freedom and that of her infant son... 18 KB (2,380 words) - 00:17, 19 April 2024 |
 | Lumpkin's Jail (category History of slavery in Virginia) beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th and 18th Streets between the 1830s and the end of the American Civil War... 13 KB (1,377 words) - 22:06, 23 February 2024 |
list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic... 31 KB (176 words) - 23:35, 23 December 2023 |
 | Virginia in the American Civil War (redirect from Virginia campaign of 1864) evacuated and abandoned Norfolk, Virginia, and the navy yard, burning and torching as many of the ships and facilities as possible. Thereafter, the secession... 62 KB (7,340 words) - 18:53, 14 March 2024 |
 | John Tyler (redirect from 10th President of the United States of America) shortage necessitated increasing the tariff, Tyler vetoed both bills, burning any remaining bridges between himself and the Whigs. Congress tried again... 143 KB (16,786 words) - 17:00, 7 April 2024 |
 | George Henry Thomas (redirect from Rock of Chickamauga) Battle of Chattanooga. In the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of 1864, he achieved one of the most decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate... 47 KB (6,197 words) - 14:05, 16 March 2024 |
 | was a message to abolitionists (see Burning of Winchester Medical College). The corpses of three other members of Brown's party—Shields Green, John Anthony... 69 KB (6,881 words) - 16:38, 11 October 2023 |
 | John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (category United States military killing of American civilians) Rt. 11 in Winchester, Virginia. In 1932 no one could find his grave.: 11 Private Luke Quinn, U.S. Marines, was killed during the storming of the engine... 112 KB (12,836 words) - 21:23, 19 April 2024 |
 | George Mason (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates) Mason College of the University of Virginia from 1959 until it received its present name in 1972. A major landmark on the Fairfax campus is a statue of George... 97 KB (13,657 words) - 17:16, 26 April 2024 |
 | Watson Brown (abolitionist) (category Winchester Medical College) casket, donated by the town of North Elba, next to the graves of John and Watson Brown. Burning of Winchester Medical College John Brown's raid on Harpers... 27 KB (2,700 words) - 03:01, 16 March 2024 |
 | Atlantic Creole (category History of the Thirteen Colonies) Atlantic Creole is a cultural identifier of those with origins in the transatlantic settlement of the Americas via Europe and Africa. Starting in the 15th... 42 KB (4,934 words) - 00:59, 17 January 2024 |
| John Casor (category Year of birth missing) Colony of Virginia, in 1655 became one of the first people of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be enslaved for life as a result of a civil... 13 KB (1,595 words) - 00:14, 19 April 2024 |
century in the Colony of Virginia. The name Driggus is likely a corruption of the Portuguese name Rodrigues as he was born in the Kingdom of Ndongo (as were... 3 KB (311 words) - 20:20, 30 April 2024 |