Virginia--History

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A conference material packet, inlcuding itinerary and brochures for the 36th Afro-American History and Genealogy, Inc. National Genealogy Conference hosted in Richmond, Virginia in 2015, themed "Where African-American Roots Run Deep: Family History and the National Narrative."

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A program of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.-Hampton Roads Chapter celebrating 30 years of history between 1988 and 2011.

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A program of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.-Hampton Roads Chapter celebrating 30 years of history between 1993 and 2023.

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Booklets, brochures, guidebooks, postcards, reports, commemorative coins and plates, official publications, and other miscellaneous printed ephemera relating to the celebration of America's 400th anniversary in Jamestown, Virginia. The collection also includes materials relating to other events in the Hampton Roads region in 2007.

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One February 7, 1902 to November 23, 1958 minute book from the Norfolk Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. The 235-page book includes meeting minutes, 1952 and 1956 membership lists, annual meeting summaries from the 1950s, a booklet for the preservation of the Adam Thoroughgood house, and a clipping about the unveiling of a historical marker in 1934 at the old lighthouse at Cape Henry.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and clippings documenting Baron Jean de Lustrac's attempt to erect a monument in downtown Norfolk, Virginia in honor of French Admiral Francois Joseph Paul Comte de Grasse, whose success in the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 led to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence and clippings relating to de Lustrac's acquiring of 10 replica cannons for Yorktown, suggesting to name the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel after de Grasse, and...

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Two 2017 planning calendars distributed by BayPort Credit Union featuring local historic photographs of greater Hampton Roads, Virginia.

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A directory of Civil War sites and landmarks throughout the state of Virginia that includes historical information about and persons pertaining to various counties and cities in the state.

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Local, regional, and national brochures and travel guides of historic landmarks and places.

Scope and Contents One index to seven books originally written between 1955 and 1978 by Emmie Ferguson Farrar about old houses in Virginia. The books indexed are: Old Virginia Houses: Along the Fall Line, Old Virginia Houses: The Heart of Virginia, Old Virginia Houses: Along the James, Old Virginia Houses: The Mountain Empire, Old Virginia Houses: The...