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The joint resolution, which created the Virginia Women's Monument Commission, was passed unanimously in both the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia. [9] In 2015, Alsop died at the age of 98, three years before the monument was first opened to the public. [7] From the text of Senate Joint Resolution No. 11:
Statue of Laura Copenhaver included in the Virginia Women's Monument. Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver (August 29, 1868 – December 18, 1940) was an American businesswoman. Copenhaver was a native of Marion, Virginia , where her father, the Reverend John Jacob Scherer, was the first president of Marion College . [ 1 ]
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.
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Cohn quickly became heavily involved in the civic affairs of her adopted city. [2] Around 1911, she joined the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women, [1] and in 1920, she was a charter member of the Richmond League of Women Voters; [2] beginning as treasurer of the latter group in the 1930s, she later became active with the state chapter, at various times serving as its vice ...
The Allied armies’ Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section included 27 women and about 320 men during and just after WWII. The Army recently revived the concept, with the first new class of ...
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Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Virginia (31 P) F Monuments and memorials in Virginia removed during the George Floyd protests (1 C, 16 P)