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Born in Woodmancote manor in Gloucestershire, England in the winter of 1631/2 and baptized in Dursley parish in late February, he was the third son of Samuel Bridger, auditor for the College of Gloucester, who died in 1650.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Herbert Jeffreys (c. 1620 – 17 December 1678) was an English Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the acting governor of Virginia in the immediate aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion.
Established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 7, 1791, on the property of James Buckells, [7] Darkesville is named for William Darke, a Virginia military officer who had his headquarters in the community.
William Cabell Brown was born in Nelson County, Virginia, his father's fourth son and mother's third child; both parents his parents descended from the First Families of Virginia.
The Happy Retreat estate was owned and developed by Charles Washington "Charlestown" was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in January 1787. [6] However, for about two decades, confusion arose because the same name was also used for a town established in Ohio County at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, and authorized in the 1791 term of that local court.
Linton Neck plantation was a prominent feature of Linton Neck in Colonial times. [5] After falling into ruin, the house was rebuilt as "Bel Aire" by the Grayson family.This house is not to be confused with the similarly named Belle Air Plantation five miles away in Minnieville, Virginia.
The Tuscarora trail, a 252-mile long distance hiking trail that passes through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, proceeds along the northeast ridgeline of Fort Valley, entering from just above Shenandoah State Park on the eastern ridgeline of Massanutten Mountain.
Created on May 15, 1772, [6] by an act [7] of the House of Burgesses from the northern third of Frederick County when it was part of Virginia, Berkeley County went on to become West Virginia's second-oldest county after that state seceded from Virginia in 1863 during the Civil War.