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Fredericksburg's daily newspaper is The Free Lance–Star. The Free Lance was first published in 1885, and competed with two twice-weekly papers in the city during the late 19th century, the Fredericksburg News and The Virginia Star. While the News folded in 1884, the Star moved to daily publication in 1893. In 1900, the two companies merged ...
Fredericksburg Country Club. / 38.26472°N 77.42694°W / 38.26472; -77.42694. Smithfield Plantation, now known as Fredericksburg Country Club, is a historic former plantation house and estate in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, four miles south of the city of Fredericksburg. It has been a private country club since 1925.
Website. www .milb .com /fredericksburg /ballpark. Virginia Credit Union Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The stadium has 5,000 seats, a 300-seat club facility, and 13 suites. [6] The estimated cost of the stadium is $35 million. [4] It is home to the Fredericksburg Nationals, a Minor League Baseball team of the ...
The Native American tribes in Virginia are the Indigenous peoples whose tribal nations historically or currently are based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America . Native peoples lived throughout Virginia for at least 12,000 years. [1] At contact, most tribes in what is now Virginia spoke languages from three major ...
Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring Marine Corps installation, Henderson Hall, and is today named Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
Cadmus Wilcox's brigade arrived on May 3, increasing Early's strength to 12,000 men and 45 cannons. Most of the Confederate force was deployed south of Fredericksburg. Early was ordered by Lee to watch the remaining Union force near Fredericksburg; if he was attacked and defeated, he was to retreat southward to protect the Confederate supply lines.
Germanna. / 38.378117; -77.783185. Germanna was a German settlement in the Colony of Virginia, settled in two waves, first in 1714 and then in 1717. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood encouraged the immigration by advertising in Germany for miners to move to Virginia and establish a mining industry in the colony.
1931–present. Fort Detrick ( / ˈdiːtrɪk /) is a United States Army Futures Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program.