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African Americans, both free and enslaved, were vital in the development of the Fredericksburg area. Slaves worked on plantations, on the docks, in iron industries, mining and quarries, mercantile businesses, construction, domestic services, and others were skilled blacksmiths, cobblers, and draymen. Learn more about African American history in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania.
8 U.S. Presidents were born in Virginia; learn a little more about one of them. Opened in 1927, the James Monroe Museum & Memorial Library houses the largest collection of Monroe-related pieces.
Digging at the Ferry Farm site near Fredericksburg, Va., the archaeologists say that evidence unearthed over seven seasons of excavation has positively confirmed the foundation and cellars that remain from the clapboard-covered wood structure that once housed George, his parents and siblings. More
In the Fredericksburg area, throw away the alarm clocks. Get ready to be whisked away to another century where the first president roamed free as a boy and the North and South came face to face in battle. The area, standing midway between Washington D.C., capital of the Union, and Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, was the major site of five Civil War battles. More
