Along with the Gullah Museum, other locations in Georgetown County help tell the story of the Gullah people. Among them are ...

The colonies of New York, Maryland, and South Carolina were expected to provide flour and rice for the slave-powered tobacco and sugar plantations in Virginia ... lodged in the House, the Senate ...

In the 1700s, when the younger sons of Tidewater Virginia’s plantation owners began crowding ... as well as his tiny boyhood house, which Johnny Cash—who married Maybelle’s daughter, June ...

Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina ... described runaway slaves and Native Americans raiding farms and plantations, and then disappearing back into the swamp with stolen ...

Located in the Heart of Virginia, this small town is rich ... Jamestown was all but abandoned. The Middle Plantation, now known as Williamsburg, replaced it as the colonial capital the following ...

The truth, by contrast, paints a far darker portrait of the man who abandoned his oath to the United States to preserve human bondage. Born in Virginia in 1807 ... graves on the grounds right up to ...

Curious as to whether primates used some form of speech to communicate, he gathered together forty monkeys of various ages and species and installed them in his house in an attempt ... she is someone ...

The abandoned plantation I’m visiting holds more than just crumbling buildings; it carries a dark past. Follow along as I ...

A stately old house of “imposing scale” has been uprooted — awakened from its historical slumber — to find a new life and a ...

What started as a mission to save a dilapidated church has blossomed into one of the most charming wedding venues in the area ...

Nestled in the village of Stanwell within the borough of Spelthorne, Middlesex, this 17th-century manor house has a captivating ... and its adjoining lands were abandoned, later being purchased ...