MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Three plantations with deep roots in colonial Virginia are going up for sale, but with a twist: the latest sellers are the current governor of West Virginia and his family. Jay ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A lovingly preserved vestige of Virginia’s plantation past is up for sale, offering a centuries-old brick-and-mortar link to the first European settlers. Carter’s Grove will ...

JAMES CITY — A proposed housing development has landed Kingsmill on the James’ namesake historical site on Preservation Virginia’s 2025 list of Most Endangered Historic Places. Escalante Golf, owner ...

In recent years, historic plantations in Virginia have worked to refocus attention on people who were enslaved. Over the past month, Belle Grove Plantation near Winchester found a special way to do ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The call that beckoned me back to my earliest roots on American soil, wasn’t even about my roots at all. It was about a job at 8News. I moved to Richmond, excited about the ...

When Air Force veteran Fred Miller bought a home in southern Virginia two years ago, he had no idea of the tragic link his family already shared with the property. In a 60 Minutes interview that aired ...

CHARLES CITY, Va. -- On a recent summer day at historic Shirley Plantation on the James River, polo ponies kicked up clods of dirt, politely applauded by the creme de la creme of Richmond society. A ...

VIRGINIA – Each May, Preservation Virginia releases a list of historic places across the Commonwealth facing imminent or sustained threats. More than 180 sites in Virginia have received attention due ...

Smithfield Plantation is at the heart of Virginia Tech. It is the sole institution that evolved into what we now know as Virginia Tech. When we visit the historical narrative that conjoins the two ...