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Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 12:02 PM EDT
|By Justin Geary
The historic buildings stand on private property, near the Village of Brownsburg.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 4:28 PM EDT
|By WDBJ7 Staff
Local to be featured in Netflix documentary profiling the "Meltdown Three Mile Island"
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Sophia Borrelli
Delegate Sam Rasoul presented the resolution.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 at 7:38 PM EDT
|By Sophia Borrelli
Hidden in Plain Site will include a virtual education tool. It will allow users to virtually visit five Roanoke sites integral to Black History.
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Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 9:09 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Joe Dashiell
Norfolk Southern Corporation is donating archives from the Norfolk and Western Railway to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2022 at 10:29 AM EDT
|By NBC12 Newsroom
Pocahontas’ legacy in Virginia is complicated. We know nothing of her story from her own perspective, and her story was enshrined by white colonists and corporations.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 3:21 PM EDT
|By NBC12 Newsroom
On this day in history, April 5, 1856, the famous Virginian Booker T. Washington was born enslaved in Franklin County.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:45 PM EDT
|By Sophia Borrelli
In the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab, team members monitor Ukrainian cultural heritages sites using advanced satellite imagery.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2022 at 9:05 PM EDT
|By Will Thomas
First Baptist Church’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Worship Service was planned for January. But inclement weather led the church to postpone it to Sunday.
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Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 4:22 PM EDT
|By Kate Capodanno
The event will include free guided tours of the Fauntleroy home, a historical presentation, live music, lawn games and refreshments.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 7:16 PM EDT
|By Joe Dashiell
One of Virginia’s newest historical highway markers profiles one of Roanoke College’s most influential graduates.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2022 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By Joe Dashiell
Veterans of the Vietnam War, and others who salute their service to the nation, gathered Saturday in Roanoke’s Freedom Plaza.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2022 at 3:45 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
Those with the tribe call this a win for Monacans everywhere.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2022 at 10:06 AM EDT
|By CNN Staff
They say the new kind of hunter was a part of a mysterious group of animals that are now completely extinct.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2022 at 11:17 PM EST
|By Will Thomas
The Roanoke Chapter Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosted the annual event.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 8:01 PM EST
|By Joe Dashiell
An organization in Martinsville has a unique mission, as it responds to the crisis in Ukraine. The Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab is located at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, and is leading U.S. efforts to monitor and map Ukraine’s cultural heritage sites.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 2:24 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
Martha Anne Woodrum Zillhardt was the first woman in Virginia to earn an instrument rating license and run a fixed base operation at an airport.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2022 at 9:29 AM EST
|By Janay Reece
The museum’s new gallery exhibit is titled “We the Women: Portraits of Empowerment”.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 1:24 PM EST
|By Leanna Scachetti
The Historic Greenfield Advisory Council said it’s important to restore Greenfield’s antebellum buildings to teach new generations about the past.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 7:36 PM EST
|By Joe Dashiell
100 years ago, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux moved his office to Roanoke. Between 1922 and 1925, he produced as many as six full-length films here.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 9:22 AM EST
|By Janay Reece
In 1875, Governor Warmoth signed the “Mardi Gras Act,” making Fat Tuesday or ‘Mardi Gras’ a legal holiday in Louisiana.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Kate Capodanno
“He’s really the connection for the whole neighborhood. He brought the whole community together,” Anna Robertson said.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 5:36 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
Lt. Col. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse spoke to VMI cadets Thursday night.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
Trained as a nurse, she founded an orphanage, worked with the elderly, pushed for more schools for the African American community, and organized political fundraising.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 5:23 PM EST
|By Sophia Borrelli
Governor Northam pardoned the seven men on August 31, 2021.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2022 at 9:31 PM EST
|By Will Thomas
The community is now able to have any of their history preserved digitally at these events.