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Entertainment

Virginians have always had a love of entertainment, which has changed over time.  From the popularity of sheet music played in homes for private guests to the influx of major celebrities like Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald who brought new trends, Virginians have appreciated ways of both providing and consuming entertainment. 

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16,000 BCE to 1622 CE
A Land of Opportunity: Creating Virginia
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1623 to 1763
A Distant Dominion
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1764 to 1824
From British Colony to American State
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1825 to 1860
Challenge of a New Century
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1861 to 1876
Civil War and Reconstruction
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1877 to 1924
Virginia in the New South
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1925 to Today
Dynamic Dominion

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