Land and People of Virginia
Author : Fairfax County Public Schools. Division of Curriculum Services
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Virginia
ISBN :
Author : Fairfax County Public Schools. Division of Curriculum Services
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Virginia
ISBN :
Author : Virginia. Division of Industrial Development
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1964
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Virginia
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Land grants
ISBN : 0806313706
The "headright" system, widely used for acquiring land in Virginia was never recognized in Virginia's Northern Neck. People wanting to acquire land there had to purchase a warrant and obtain a survey before they were issued a grant. The original Grant Books, now on microfilm, were used in making this collection of abstracts, and they generally provide the following information on some 5,000 Northern Neck residents: the name of the grantee, dates of warrant and survey, date and location of grant, amount of acreage, names of former owners/occupiers, names of adjacent property owners, and often the names of heirs and other family members.
Author : Walter Stitt Robinson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Contains chapters on the land, the Indians, the London Company, Virginia as a royal colony, the nature and size of land grants, royal administration of land policy, attempts at reform, and the Northern Neck.
Author : Thomas Hariot
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Indians of North America
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Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0813937213
From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
Author : E. Arnost Hyde
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : West Virginia
ISBN : 9780962315367
Lovely colored photographs are featured in this descriptive book on West Virginia.
Author : Martha W. McCartney
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806317748
"From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).
Author : Karla Smith
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403405814
Examines the diversity of people who inhabit the state of Virginia, beginning with the Native Americans.