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"That part of America, now called Virginia"

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In 1590, John White published the first separate map of “Virginia” and the first printed record of Sir Walter Raleigh’s...

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A House Built of Virginia Stone

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Approximately forty miles south of Washington, D.C., the Aquia sandstone quarry on Government Island sits quietly in the...

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A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100

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The landscape of the state is enchanting and, when threatened, Garden Club members unite to educate themselves and the...

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Aluminum and Beer

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Reynolds established its Can Division in 1963, and in that same year developed the first all-aluminum, twelve-ounce can.

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Audubon's The Birds of America

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In the VMHC collections are several rare editions of his work, including a first edition of Viviparous Quadrupeds and...

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Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds

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Following the success of his Birds of America, John James Audubon began to gather material for an equally ambitious...

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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…

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Edwin Fisher Conger loved trees—especially chestnuts, those tall, majestic perennials from which he would eventually...

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Business Archives & The Chesapeake Corporation

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Collections of business records arrive for safekeeping and preservation at the VMHC in a variety of ways.

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Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

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As of Winter 2021, Virginia remains among the top ten states for largest Filipino American populations, and by no...

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Changing the Commonwealth with Crayons

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When she was in the third grade, a classmate asked her to pass the “skin-colored” crayon—a familiar request heard at her...

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Clementina Rind

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Clementina Rind was Virginia’s first female printer and newspaper publisher, publishing important official documents for...

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Colored Knights of Pythias Helmet (c. 1890)

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Race has been a divisive issue throughout American history, and this impressive helmet tells part of the story.

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Craddock-Terry Records Walk on Over to the Museum

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The Craddock-Terry Shoe Company, once the largest employer in Lynchburg, produced lines of boots and shoes which were...

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Fraud! Controversy! And neat properties in Virginia: Things you never knew about title insurance

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Did you know that title insurance is almost exclusively an American business? In most industrialized countries...

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From Horse-Driven to Gas-Fueled Transportation

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This gravity-flow pump (c. 1927), used near Petersburg, Virginia, is evidence of the state’s transition from horse...

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Henkel Press

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In 1806, two young men, Ambrose Henkel and his brother Solomon, started one of the first German language presses in the...

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Industrialization in Virginia

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The 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, more Americans were living in urban areas than rural ones. However...

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Jacob L. "JL" Morewitz

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Jacob L. “JL” Morewitz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1896 but raised in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1916, at the age of...

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Lane Cedar Chest

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Few Virginia-manufactured items were as well known as the Lane Cedar Chest. When the Lane Company closed its Altavista...

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Larus & Brother Advertisements

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In 1877 a partnership between Charles D. Larus and Herbert C. Larus formed the Larus & Brother Company. This small...