A lesson for the ages is shared at the historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Dozens of local families on New Years Day visited a place that is critical in the history of Hampton Roads and the entire ...
Augusta Free Press

Norfolk Southern donates archives, $750K to Virginia Museum of History & Culture

Norfolk Southern Corporation has donated the complete collection of historical documents and archives from predecessor company Norfolk and Western Railway to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
The Virginian-Pilot

Suffolk author tracks Norfolk Southern’s transformation through centuries

Beth Cooper didn’t really get a chance to dig too deep into research for her new book on the history of Norfolk Southern and its predecessor railroad companies before COVID-19 changed the world. Her ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Wallace History Room traces Chesapeake’s evolution from Norfolk County days

When the City of South Norfolk merged with Norfolk County in 1963 to form the City of Chesapeake, many local citizens were concerned Norfolk County history would fall by the wayside — and be forgotten ...
Daily Press

Norfolk shipped 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans before the Civil War. Now an effort is underway to document the forgotten history.

Each week, 15-year-old Lianna Schmieder scrutinizes centuries-old scrawl. She and her classmates at Roadstead Montessori High School in Ghent drag out stacks of folders containing copies of documents ...
Nature

Sir Thomas Browne's Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk

NORFOLK sportsmen and naturalists—and they are many—will be sure to find much to interest them in a work dealing with the fauna of their county as it was in the middle of the seventeenth century, when ...