Before West Virginia was its own state, a Congressman from Massachusetts travelled to Wayne County with dreams of building a ...

There are 11 Civil War veterans buried in the Anti-slavery Friends Cemetery at Asa Bales Park in Westfield. On June 21 at 10 ...

Regular readers of this column probably weren’t surprised by Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s outburst this week regarding the poor condition of state roads and bridges – despite a $2.8 billion "Roads ...

Governor Patrick Morrisey's office says the governor will not be giving state employees the day off for Juneteenth.

Governor Patrick Morrisey’s office says the governor will not be giving state employees the day off for Juneteenth.

Since 1863, West Virginians have celebrated June 20 as independence day for the state and its people. West Virginia broke free of a Commonwealth of Virginia government that spent decades prioritizing ...

Two brothers born into slavery in the 1820s have been honored with new "stumbling stone" historical markers on Columbia Pike.

The Greenbrier County Juneteenth Steering Committee has teamed up with the Greenbrier Historical Society to announce the ...

He was now a slave, one of 500,000 enslaved people ... Americans kill each other in battles throughout Virginia from Fairfax to Petersburg and west through the Shenandoah Valley.

The markers, which document the history of the Underground Railroad in the region, “span nine counties across three states,” ...

The first Africans in Virginia were followed by more than 400,000 people captured and brought directly from West and central African to the North American slave ports, from New England to New Orleans.

Augusta then covered most of Virginia west of the Blue Ridge. Chart by David M. Poole. At the start, enslaved Blacks provided a tiny portion of labor in Augusta County. McCleskey reports that in 1755, ...