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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:
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.
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 ]
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When it comes to monuments in the U.S., those honoring women are few and far between. Dr. Joy Marie Giguere, a monument expert from Penn State York, says the reason for the small number is pretty ...
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 ...
The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy, also known as the U.D.C. Memorial Building, is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia, that serves as the national headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [2]