Bob Cerullo
Stingray Point Hotel
The sun still sets, often in glorious fiery red glows, and the tall grass now grows on the land on which the Stingray Point Hotel once stood. Read more
Our Brave Old Mill
"Beside the stream the grist-mill stands, With bending roof and leaning wall; So old, that when the winds are wild, The miller trembles lest it fall: And yet it baffles wind and rain, Our brave old Mill! and will again." ~ Richard Henry Stoddard Read more
Battle of the Chesapeake
The great irony is the Battle of the Chesapeake was the greatest naval battle ever fought in American waters. Yet, there were no Americans aboard either side’s ships in the battle, which would be the turning point of the American Revolution. Read more
Dr. Mitchell's Map: One of America's Most Important Maps
When British and American diplomats met to draw the definitive boundary between the United States and Canada, they relied upon Mitchell's map to set the borders of a new nation, thus creating the concept of an independent United States of America. Read more
Robert Carter III: Virginia's First Emancipator and his Deed of Gift
Describing Robert Carter III as a “councillor” is a grand irony. It is like describing President Abraham Lincoln as a country lawyer, Thomas Jefferson as a writer, or George Washington as a surveyor. Read more
Buffalo Soldiers of Westmoreland County
“Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S. ..., there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.” -- Frederick Douglass Read more
