7th District Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger has announced one federal grant of $96,545 to protect 14 acres of the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield.
AUDIO: City Councilman Matt Kelly explains his vote against moving the slave auction block from the corner of William and Charles Streets to the Fredericksburg Area Museum.
History at Sunset begins its 17th year this weekend with a big change. The National Park Service programs have been shifted to Saturday evenings with an earlier start time—6:30 p.m.
VIDEO: Fredericksburg City Council votes to move the slave auction block from the corner of William and Charles Streets to the Fredericksburg Area Museum. Here’s the unedited 40 minutes of debate leading up to the vote.
VIDEO: Fredericksburg Councilman Matt Kelly talks about why he opposes moving the slave auction block to the Fredericksburg Area Museum.
VIDEO: Fredericksburg City Council votes to move the slave auction block to the Fredericksburg Area Museum by the end of the year. Councilman Chuck Frye made the motion.
Only one no vote. Motion calls for slave block to be moved by the end of the year.
VIDEO: Today is the final day of the 2019 season of the Virginia Renaissance Faire at Lake Anna Winery in Spotsylvania from 10-5.
VIDEO: The 1st LT. Commander of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Matthew Fountaine Maury Camp, played Taps at the conclusion of the Memorial Day program at the Confederate Cemetery.
VIDEO: Memorial Day 2019 at the Confederate Cemetery. “Gather Them All.” Written and read by Roy Perry.
VIDEO: Memorial Day 2019 at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
Storms bring an early end to the annual Luminaria at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
PHOTOS: Volunteers worked Saturday morning to get the Confederate Cemetery ready for the Saturday night illumination.
PHOTOS: Getting ready for the illumination Saturday night at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery on Lafayette Blvd. (8-11pm) Hundreds of Scouts placing bags, sand and candles next to the over 15-thousand graves Saturday morning.
AUDIO: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy talks about Memorial Day weekend events in the region.
VIDEO: May 14, 1864. Meyer’s Hill in Spotsylvania. Tucked away among development, a key Civil War battlefield remains relatively untouched. And it will remain that way thanks to the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. We walked the land with Historian Chris Mackowski.
PHOTOS: Hen Asem is a series of programs this year in Fredericksburg commemorating the 400th anniversary of African Americans coming to the colonies in the slave trade. Saturday at Market Square downtown, Taratibu Youth Association from DC brought dance and music–and some powerful history stories.
VIDEO: The Fredericksburg Area Museum is marking the 400th anniversary of the first African Americans brought to the colonies as part of the slave trade with programs all year. The programing is called Hen Asem. Sara Poore and Michael Carter, Jr. talked about it.
VIDEO: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Historian Frank O’Reilly talks about Stonewall Jackson’s last days in Caroline County
VIDEO: May 2, 1863. Stonewall Jackson is wounded at Chancellorsville by his own men. Here is part of a program at Chancellorsville by Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Historians in 2015
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