1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (533+ words) The new Historical Village on the Dismal Swamp Canal Trial in southern Chesapeake tells stories of the indigenous people who lived in the area long before English colonists arrived in Jamestown and the Black Americans who both labored to dig…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (451+ words) JAMES CITY — The James City County Board of Supervisors recently approved a measure that would allow some property developers to forgo a mandatory archaeological survey under limited circumstances. At a meeting last month, supervisors unanimously passed an amendment to the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (302+ words) Today is Saturday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2026. There are 145 days left in the year. On Aug. 8, 1963, Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes. In 1814, during the War of 1812, peace talks between the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (438+ words) Today is Friday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2026. There are 146 days left in the year. On Aug. 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal environmental disaster in Niagara Falls, N.Y., a federal health emergency; it would later top the initial list of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (433+ words) If you peered through the summer haze at Cape Henry on Aug. 7, 1776, a flotilla of Royal Navy ships and merchant vessels was sailing out of Chesapeake Bay, marking the end of 169 years of British rule in Virginia. Patriots celebrated the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (755+ words) JAMES CITY — The effort by the corporate owner of Kingsmill on the James to build 28 homes around the community’s namesake historic site remains on track despite a second independent review that has found shortcomings in the project’s mandatory archaeological assessment....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (370+ words) Today is Sunday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2026. There are 151 days left in the year. In 1790, the first United States Census began under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson; a total of 3,929,214 people were counted in the census, nearly 700,000 of whom were…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (756+ words) Today is Tuesday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2026. There are 149 days left in the year. On Aug. 4, 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee for entering the country illegally and ordered their release during…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (346+ words) This news arrived at The Virginia Gazettes in August 1776, a month after America had declared independence from Great Britain: “I will still entertain a hope that my rebellious subjects may be awakened to a sense of their duty,” King George…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (330+ words) Today is Tuesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2026. There are 156 days left in the year. On July 28, 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics officially opened; 14 Eastern Bloc countries, led by the Soviet Union, boycotted the Games. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine…...