On Feb. 23, the Suffolk Visitor Center will commemorate the arrival of Lafayette at the site of the former Nansemond County Courthouse on the same route that the marquis traveled in a horse-drawn ...

Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Colonial Downs announced Aug. 6 that it had rescheduled racing from Aug. 8-9 to Aug. 12-13, respectively. The move was made due to the expected impact caused by Tropical Storm Debby.

She also hopes the county can learn from the struggle of some Northern Virginia localities and data center development. Hayes said her key concern is the impact on residential areas. She also ...

The Colony girls basketball team defeated Newman Smith on the road Friday, 59-53, but had a tougher outing Tuesday, falling to Highland Park at home, 36-31. The loss puts the Lady Cougars at 6-6 ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

The covered area on the map corresponds to a location near present-day Bertie County ... Virginia, probably dating from the sixteenth century. The find suggests that archaeologists had stumbled upon a ...

The secretive spot is in present-day Bertie County, North Carolina ... site for the Cittie of Raleigh, the colony that John White was sent to Virginia to found,'” Sloan told Popular Mechanics.

Experts believe they may have finally solved the centuries-old mystery of America's lost Roanoke colony through hidden details discovered in a 400-year-old map. A blank spot on the historic "La ...

specifically the role of African Americans in colonial America and in the founding of the nation. In an interview with The Virginia Gazette just a few months into his presidency, Longsworth said ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery ... site for the 'Cittie of Raleigh,' the colony that John White was sent to Virginia to found,' Sloan told Popular ...