Shenendoah National Park

western Virginia Visited: Sometime Soon NPS Site Visited: Not There Yet NPS Website Our plan was to sneak down to Shenandoah NP for a few days after our office’s annual conference. We thought the first week in November would be prime foliage falling season. Just as we were packing our bags we received a surprise [...]

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Booker T. Washington National Monument

near Rocky Mount, Va. Visited: November 1, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 278 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Site dedicated to Booker T. Washington, a man born into slavery in 1856, who became a major figure in turn of the century United States history. Washington is best known as the longtime president [...]

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Blue Ridge Parkway

stretches from Shenandoah NP, Va. to Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tenn. Visited: October 30, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 276 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? 469 miles of two-lane road that follows the Appalachian Mountain ridgeline, each mile more breathtaking than the last. BEAUTY (10/10) The Parkway rides the long, bumpy spine [...]

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Jamestown National Historic Site – part of Colonial National Historical Park

James City, Va. Visited: October 12, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 258 of 353 and is also an: NPS Affiliate Site Visited: 13 of 26 NPS Website; Local Website; NPS Colonial NHP Website; Local Colonial NHP Website WHAT IS IT? Location of the first successful English colony in the New World, led in 1607 by Capt. [...]

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Yorktown Battlefield – part of Colonial National Historical Park

Yorktown, Va. Visited: October 12, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 258 of 353 NPS Yorktown Battlefield Website; Local Yorktown Website; NPS Colonial NHP Website; Local Colonial NHP Website WHAT IS IT? Site, in October of 1781, of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War and British General Cornwallis’ eventual surrender to George Washington’s Army. BEAUTY [...]

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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

Appomattox, Va. Visited: October 11, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 257 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Rural Virginia town where, on April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant, ending the American Civil War. BEAUTY (6/10) The quaint village of Appomattox Court [...]

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Petersburg National Battlefield

Petersburg, Va. Visited: October 11, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 256 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Site of the prolonged 9½-month long, 1864-65 U.S. Grant-led campaign and siege against Robert E. Lee and the War’s last Confederate stronghold, Petersburg, Va. The April ’65 fall of Petersburg resulted in Lee’s surrender at Appomattox [...]

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Richmond National Battlefield Park

Richmond, Va. Visited: October 7, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 253 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Battlefield sites scattered throughout the city’s outskirts commemorate the Union’s attempts to take the city in both 1862 and 1864. The [...]

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Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park

Fredericksburg, Va. Visited: October 5, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 251 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Perhaps the bloodiest locale on the North American continent. The four Civil War battles commemorated by the Park took over 100,000 casualties including the War’s most famous soldier, Stonewall Jackson. The battles memorialized are the December [...]

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Manassas National Battlefield Park

Manassas, Va. Visited: October 5, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 249 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Site of two early Civil War battles, in July 1861 and August 1862. The Battles are also known by their Union moniker, the First and Second Battles of Bull Run. BEAUTY (4/10) Northern Virginia’s rolling landscape [...]

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