Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 in West Virginia. She was one of her mother's more than 12 children -- though most died from diseases like measles. During the Civil War, Anna's mother, Ann Maria ...

Oliver and other Sons of Confederate veterans interviewed said their group is primarily about honoring valiant ancestors and preserving Civil ... war, he attended Baylor University and West ...

The historic West Virginia boomtown of Volcano has come back to life – in miniature. Thanks to the efforts of local modeler ...

The as-yet-unnamed town site was bounded by West Street on the west ... In any case, Reno was named for a Virginia Civil War loyalist, General Jesse Lee Reno, who fell in the battle of South ...

Civil War railroading: Replacing the bridge over Potomac Creek in Northern Virginia was one of the first challenges ... the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December ...

Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This ...

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.

Perched at 6,200 feet on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, this former silver mining boomtown refuses to surrender to time’s march, creating a sanctuary where stress seems as foreign as smartphones ...

We’ve just discovered a new mountain region to love in the Southeast USA; Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Home of Shenandoah ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

The West Virginia tavern now known as Foster's Main Street Tavern gained Civil War history when two future presidents dined there in the midst of the war.

New laws in Montana and West Virginia, effective in July, allow optometrists to perform laser surgeries. Fourteen U.S. states now permit optometric laser surgery. Starting in July, optometrists in ...