Virginia
Cavaliers' home state
Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, one of the original thirteen colonies.
Its history is central to American narrative—site of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, birthplace of eight presidents, and major battleground of the Civil War.
We drove through Virginia on our way to D.C.
The name also serves as a given name for women. (Lowercase virginia refers to a type of tobacco or the Virginia reel dance.)
First permanent English settlement
- WilliamsburgColonial-era Virginia city
- PowhatanVirginia Algonquian confederation
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
Pocahontas · settlers · colonists · charter · indentured servitude · John Smith · Tidewater · colonial capital
Virginia presidential estate
- Mount VernonFirst president's residence
- Thomas JeffersonThird American president
- Revolutionary WarColonial uprising against Britain
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
George Washington · Patrick Henry · Robert E. Lee · George Mason · James Madison · Confederacy · Founding Fathers · secession
Virginia's seat of government
- NorfolkVirginia coastal city
- ChesapeakeMid-Atlantic tidal estuary
- ArlingtonVirginia burial ground
- AlexandriaEgyptian Mediterranean port
Hampton · Roanoke · Charlottesville · Newport News · Portsmouth · Suffolk · Lynchburg · Blacksburg
Appalachian subrange in the East
- ShenandoahAppalachian river and park
- AppalachiansEastern U.S. mountain chain
- peaksHighest points attained
- valleysLow areas between hills
highlands · ridges · hiking · trails · scenic · elevation · Blue Ridge Parkway · mountain music
Eastern U.S. coastal zone
- MarylandMid-Atlantic U.S. state
- North CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coast state
- TennesseeSixteenth state admitted
- KentuckyBluegrass State
Washington D.C. · Chesapeake Bay · Atlantic coast · border states · Southern
Jamestown
First permanent English settlement
- WilliamsburgColonial-era Virginia city
- PowhatanVirginia Algonquian confederation
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
Pocahontas · plantation · settlers · colonists · charter · indentured servitude · John Smith · Tidewater · colonial capital
Monticello
Virginia presidential estate
- Mount VernonFirst president's residence
- Thomas JeffersonThird American president
- Revolutionary WarColonial uprising against Britain
George Washington · Patrick Henry · Robert E. Lee · George Mason · James Madison · Civil War · Confederacy · Founding Fathers · secession · antebellum
Richmond
Virginia's seat of government
- NorfolkVirginia coastal city
- ChesapeakeMid-Atlantic tidal estuary
- ArlingtonVirginia burial ground
Alexandria · Hampton · Roanoke · Charlottesville · Newport News · Portsmouth · Suffolk · Lynchburg · Blacksburg · Danville
Blue Ridge
Appalachian subrange in the East
- ShenandoahAppalachian river and park
- AppalachiansEastern U.S. mountain chain
- peaksHighest points attained
valleys · highlands · ridges · hiking · trails · scenic · elevation · Blue Ridge Parkway · mountain music · hollows
Mid-Atlantic
Eastern U.S. coastal zone
- MarylandMid-Atlantic U.S. state
- North CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coast state
- TennesseeSixteenth state admitted
Kentucky · Washington D.C. · Chesapeake Bay · Atlantic coast · border states · Southern
- US StatesCalifornia, Texas, New York, Florida, Hawaii
- US PlacesNew York, California, Texas, Florida, Arizona
- 1950s namesBarbara, Betty, Beverly, Bobby, Brenda
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- East CoastAtlantic coast, mid-Atlantic, Eastern Seaboard, New York City, NYC
- George Washingtonfirst president, Mount Vernon, founding father, Continental Army, crossing the Delaware
VirginiaMassachusetts
Northeastern colonial state
West Virginia · New York · Pennsylvania · Ohio · Maine
VirginiaAlaska
America's frozen northwest
Hawaii · Arizona · New Mexico · Oklahoma · California
- Virginia TechPublic university in Blacksburg
- virgin forestForest never harvested
- Virginia hamSalt-cured Southern pork
- Northern VirginiaD.C.'s southern suburbs
- West VirginiaAppalachian state, capital Charleston
- U. S. Virgin IslandsAmerican Caribbean island territory
virgin, virginity, Virginia reel, virginal, West Virginia, Virginia Woolf, Virginia creeper, Virgin Islands, Virginia Beach