A 141.6-acre property in northeastern Frederick County that lies within the core battle areas of three major Civil War battlefields was permanently protected through a conservation easement last month ...

Over the past few years as our favorite hiking places around Northern Virginia and Shenandoah National Park have become more ...

Nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley sits a pocket-sized paradise where history isn’t cordoned ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

Goshen Pass, just a short drive west of town, offers dramatic scenery where the Maury River cuts through mountain terrain, ...

The wife is a veterinarian in charge of the Augusta Regional SPCA. The husband is an orthopedic surgeon with Shenandoah Valley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Harrisonburg. They live with three ...

An acre of land owned by the city of Richmond contains potentially hundreds of unmarked graves, some of which could belong to ...

Sunny with a high of 86 °F (30 °C). Winds N at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds variable at 2 to 8 mph (3.2 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 58 °F (14.4 °C ...

Civil War re-enactors from several states will bring a little-known slice of very local history to life at Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm on Saturday and Sunday, the same weekend the farm is ...

There’s some evidence that the migration fueled the civil war there, in which 80,000 people have died. “You had a lot of angry, unemployed men helping to trigger a revolution,” says Aaron ...