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An 18-member commission, along with input from the Library of Virginia and professors of women's history, selected the women to be honored with statues sculpted by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, New York. The granite plaza and Wall of Honor were opened in October 2018 and the monument was officially unveiled with the first seven completed statues on ...
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
Scott was born on July 30, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia. She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1914 through 1916 and graduated from Barnard College in 1921. She received a doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago in the mid-1930s. [1] She went on to teach at Westhampton College, a women's college now part of University of Richmond. [2]
The monument depicts two 12-foot bronze statues of a woman holding an infant, and a man breaking free from shackles. Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Virginia Skip to main content
Mary Elizabeth Nottingham Day died on April 2, 1956, at Kings' Daughter's Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. [3] In 2016, the Library of Virginia added her name to their list of Virginia Women in History. [2] In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Nottingham's name would be included on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of ...
Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne (March 8, 1841 – May 6, 1904) was an American writer, reformer, and an early supporter and activist for women's suffrage in Virginia. [1] Langhorne held progressive views for her time, often writing in favor of racial reconciliation, improved educational opportunities for African Americans, and women's ...
During her tenure as First Lady, Northam expanded the historical tour and educational programs at the Virginia Governor's Mansion to tell the full history of the enslaved African Americans who worked in the home's history. [15] In the same year, she also served as a member of the Host Committee for the Virginia Women Veterans Summit. [16]
She also served as the Executive Director of "Drive Smart" for close to a decade, on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation, on the Virginia State Bar Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (6 years), and on the Women's Monument Commission (which is presently working on the Virginia Women's Monument). [1]