“The best way ... well as Northern Virginia's first representative to Congress. He was also the uncle of Robert E. Lee. While the Lees lived at what was then called Sully Plantation, the farm ...

Between ten and eleven on December 14, Washington died in his bedchamber with Martha at the foot of his bed. His last words ...

The Nottaway Plantation ... named for the Virginia county where he was born. The manor was built by 150 enslaved people, who baked each brick by hand and slept in slave quarters on the property ...

Nottoway Plantation / Cornelia Randolph Murrell, painter / ca. 1870s1880s Randolph, a planter from wealthy, prominent Virginia family ... would have included slave quarters, lined up in a straight ...

The historic Nottoway Resort in White Castle, a former plantation home and the largest ... would have included slave quarters, lined up in a straight row beyond the main house, but close enough ...

But as blacks migrated en masse from the South in the 20th century, former slave quarters—most of which ... had avoided any contact with the Virginia plantation where their ancestors were ...

Bettye Kearse could see her ancestor walking the worn path that led from the big house to the slave quarters. She thought of that path each time she pulled up the long, winding driveway leading to ...

Two historic buildings, a slave quarters and a plantation kitchen house ... to the historical society for help in determining how best to relocate the buildings while maintaining their historic ...

Have you ever been to the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City? I went to the annual event for the first time. It takes place on the first Sunday in November. The step ...

Last week, the Danville and Pittsylvania County Regional Industrial Facility Authority passed a resolution to enter a sale contract with the owners of the former Oak Hill Plantation site in ...

Get ready to spend 7 days in Charleston with this itinerary that gets to the heart of this beloved Southern city!

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) -In Roebuck, at the Walnut Grove Plantation ... they were uncovering the remains of the original slave quarters. The original home was built in the 1700s, and ...