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November 27 – In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins. December 23 – Conservative Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27).
By 1860 there were 58,042 free people of color (black or mulatto, as classified in the census) in Virginia. [28] Over the decades, many had gathered in the cities of Richmond and Petersburg where there were more job opportunities. Others were landowners who had working farms, or found acceptance from neighbors in the frontier areas of Virginia ...
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Virginia is divided into 95 counties and 38 independent cities, which the U.S. Census Bureau describes as county-equivalents. [163] This general method of treating cities and counties on par with each other is unique to Virginia and stretches back to the influence of Williamsburg and Norfolk in the colonial period. [164]
Waynesboro (/ ˈ w eɪ n z b ʌ r oʊ /; formerly Flack [4]) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a principal city of the Staunton-Waynesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area. Waynesboro is located in the Shenandoah Valley and is surrounded by Augusta County. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 22,196. [5]
Augusta County, Virginia – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2010 [10] Pop 2020 [11] % 2010 % 2020 White ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km 2), all of it land and none of it water. [21] Falls Church is the smallest independent city by area in Virginia. Since independent cities in Virginia are considered county-equivalents, it is also the smallest county-equivalent in the United States by area.